Seven Troop
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Manufacturer: Bantam Press
Written By: Andy McNab
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780593059500
ISBN: 0593059506
Label: Bantam Press
Manufacturer: Bantam Press
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2008-09-12
Publisher: Bantam Press
Studio: Bantam Press
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Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Mediocre at best
Comment: After having been a fan of all McNab's fiction and non-fiction books, I was slightly disappointed in this latest one. Not enough detail is given to 'big' operations and left me on occasion checking to see if I'd accidentally skipped a page! Although his messages on PTSD are powerful and show us that the best of the best can still suffer from these awful disorders, the rest of the book found me skipping along to get to the next bit, not from excitement, but from boredom!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dull and sad
Comment: Not a lot going for this book. The author spends a lot of time explaining what broken and lost people some of his former comrades in arms are (most of this is described in other books by the people involved), and that war wrecks peoples lives so perhaps they need professional help. Not exactly news to anyone, one might think.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Realities of Soldiering
Comment: Like his other non-fictional books, Seven Troop is an excellent read. In my opinion, his best to date. McNab describes in vivid detail, from his own experience, and that of his "Brothers in Arms" the reality of fighting "at the sharp end", and the effect it has on those individuals once they are no longer exposed to those dangers. His unselfish accounts of Frank Collins, Al Slater and in particular, Nish Bruce and Thomas Franks, highlight the problems surrounding PTSD, and the need for those in a position to do so, to provide the help and counselling these guys so desperately need.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Been there before
Comment: My reason for three stars is that I feel I've read most of it before in Bravo Two Zero. To be honest, I started to skip through it-Yet going back over the parts where McNab ?, like in other books, will keep on telling us and showing photos-of men who are no longer in this world. Please don't take me wrong, I am not saying that he is being unfeeling in this, but the men in question have got friends and loved one still around, and I think it about time the men were allowed to rest, and there families too. I fully agree in one thing he said, and that is that casualties of war, should not have to go to a secret place in Wales to recover from a thing that the Government has put them into. It should be there on a plate for them, showing them the respect they showed to the job they did.
In my opinion for what its worth. If you want a book on the Special Forces, you need to be reading Fighting Scared by Robin Horsfall, as he doesn't invade on other mens lives only his own.
Sorry Andy but thats the way I feel.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Disagreement
Comment: I am going to have to disagree with the other reviewers. This book does nothing but rehash Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action. The fire fights in Northern Ireland, Nicky Smith's death, selection, The Gulf War, et al. They have been all gone over in McNab's two previous non fiction books.
Personally, I was hoping for something with more depth into operations, training, etc. However, I did not get that. Yes, I realize OPSEC is an issue. However, lets be real here folks, most of the information is on open forums now.
Another issue, he could have not been so heavy on the religious issues. Frank Collins is mentioned so heavily and his constant bible thumping, became "borish."
Finally, I would like to challenge (let the flames begin) McNab's statement he does not suffer from any sort of PTSD. A man who has been married 5 times, needs to really sit back, look in the mirror, and figure out exactly what HIS OWN personal problems are. There has to be something.
Mr McNab, if you write another non fiction book, I'd like to see you detail what you did AFTER the 1st Gulf War. What did you do in the SAS that one and a half years? That part of your life is totally missing from your fans.
Summary: Mediocre at best
Comment: After having been a fan of all McNab's fiction and non-fiction books, I was slightly disappointed in this latest one. Not enough detail is given to 'big' operations and left me on occasion checking to see if I'd accidentally skipped a page! Although his messages on PTSD are powerful and show us that the best of the best can still suffer from these awful disorders, the rest of the book found me skipping along to get to the next bit, not from excitement, but from boredom!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Dull and sad
Comment: Not a lot going for this book. The author spends a lot of time explaining what broken and lost people some of his former comrades in arms are (most of this is described in other books by the people involved), and that war wrecks peoples lives so perhaps they need professional help. Not exactly news to anyone, one might think.
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Realities of Soldiering
Comment: Like his other non-fictional books, Seven Troop is an excellent read. In my opinion, his best to date. McNab describes in vivid detail, from his own experience, and that of his "Brothers in Arms" the reality of fighting "at the sharp end", and the effect it has on those individuals once they are no longer exposed to those dangers. His unselfish accounts of Frank Collins, Al Slater and in particular, Nish Bruce and Thomas Franks, highlight the problems surrounding PTSD, and the need for those in a position to do so, to provide the help and counselling these guys so desperately need.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Been there before
Comment: My reason for three stars is that I feel I've read most of it before in Bravo Two Zero. To be honest, I started to skip through it-Yet going back over the parts where McNab ?, like in other books, will keep on telling us and showing photos-of men who are no longer in this world. Please don't take me wrong, I am not saying that he is being unfeeling in this, but the men in question have got friends and loved one still around, and I think it about time the men were allowed to rest, and there families too. I fully agree in one thing he said, and that is that casualties of war, should not have to go to a secret place in Wales to recover from a thing that the Government has put them into. It should be there on a plate for them, showing them the respect they showed to the job they did.
In my opinion for what its worth. If you want a book on the Special Forces, you need to be reading Fighting Scared by Robin Horsfall, as he doesn't invade on other mens lives only his own.
Sorry Andy but thats the way I feel.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Disagreement
Comment: I am going to have to disagree with the other reviewers. This book does nothing but rehash Bravo Two Zero and Immediate Action. The fire fights in Northern Ireland, Nicky Smith's death, selection, The Gulf War, et al. They have been all gone over in McNab's two previous non fiction books.
Personally, I was hoping for something with more depth into operations, training, etc. However, I did not get that. Yes, I realize OPSEC is an issue. However, lets be real here folks, most of the information is on open forums now.
Another issue, he could have not been so heavy on the religious issues. Frank Collins is mentioned so heavily and his constant bible thumping, became "borish."
Finally, I would like to challenge (let the flames begin) McNab's statement he does not suffer from any sort of PTSD. A man who has been married 5 times, needs to really sit back, look in the mirror, and figure out exactly what HIS OWN personal problems are. There has to be something.
Mr McNab, if you write another non fiction book, I'd like to see you detail what you did AFTER the 1st Gulf War. What did you do in the SAS that one and a half years? That part of your life is totally missing from your fans.
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