CHRIS RYAN
WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE DID!
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'Chris Ryan' Born 1961 (age 49–50)
Rowlands Gill, England Allegiance United Kingdom Service/branch British
Army Years of service 1978–1994 Rank Sergeant Unit Special Air Service
Battles/wars Gulf War Awards Military Medal Other work Author, Security
Consultant. Sergeant ‘Chris Ryan’ MM (born 1961, Rowlands Gill, Tyne and
Wear) is the pseudonym of a former British Special Forces operative and
soldier turned novelist. Ryan came to public prominence for being the only
member of the eight-man SAS mission, Bravo Two Zero to escape, during the
First Gulf War, 1991.
He has subsequently written a number of books, including The One That Got
Away, and "One Good Turn", a specially commissioned story for the Quick
Reads Initiative, aimed at improving adult literacy. 'The One that Got Away'
has since been heavily criticised by Trooper Mike Coburn and Sergeant Andy
McNab, two of the surviving members of the patrol, particularly in relation to
its negative portrayal of Sergeant Vince Phillips, who died of hypothermia
during the patrol's attempted escape.
ONE OF HIS MISSONS
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Bravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British
Army SAS patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf
War in January 1991. According to one patrol member's
account, the patrol were given the task of "gathering
intelligence;... finding a good LUP (lying up position) and
setting up an OP" on the Iraqi Main Supply Route (MSR)
between Baghdad and North-Western Iraq, while
according to another, the task was to find and destroy
Iraqi Scud missile launchers along a 250 km (160 mi)
stretch of the MSR.
The patrol was the subject of several books, firstly patrol
commander Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero (1993)
followed by Chris Ryan's The One That Got Away (1995).
CHRIS RYAN’S BOOKS
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