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Originally Posted by Texian
Guess I'l take everything in it with several grains of salt as I did with Andy McNab's books about SAS.
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A former SAS guy actually went back to the area where the team were compromised and after extensive research and interviews with the family living on the farm and the boy who supposedly blew the whistle on the team, there were strong indications that McNab left one of his men behind who was suffering from dehydration/hypothermia (cant remember which) while they were on the retreat to die as opposed to the movie/book version that the guy disappeared.
And the big gun battle at the iraqi check point never happened.
Its sad when individuals need to resort to creating events that never happened. I dont know how he sleeps at night knowing he lied.
I actually did read Haney's book 2-3 years back and hve his book somewhere on the shelve. He does go into quite a bit of detail about how he came about joining DF and even more on operational procedures and planning.
I was quite surprised he actually did write the book, especially given the nature of delta force and their attitude to keeping all things on a low profile basis. It was perhaps quite unexpected that he would choose to write a book of all things.