A side note
Peter Ratcliffe served about twenty five years in the British SAS and was the RSM when he left. He states in his book that it was written to correct some of the nonsense that has been written about the SAS in recent years, especially after books like 'Bravo Two Zero" and "The One That Got Away" came out. I didn't think the book was that well written from the grammatical sense, (as if I would know!). I think he was concentrating on giving an accurate account from the Army point of view rather than an aviation one.
Ratcliff's book has been criticised quite strongly by some of those he accused of talking 'tosh' - we will never know!
Last edited by parabellum; 5th Jul 2010 at 20:39.