Andy McNab prison services, anti-drug forces and Western backed guerrilla movements as well as on conventional special operations. In Northern Ireland, he spent two years working as an undercover operator with 14 Intelligence Company, going on to become an instructor. During the Gulf War, McNab commanded Bravo Two Zero, an eight-man SAS patrol that was given the task of destroying underground communication links between Baghdad and north-west Iraq and with tracking Scud missile movements in the region. The patrol was dropped into Iraq on 22 January 1991, but was soon compromised, following which it attempted an escape on foot towards Syria, the
British Army during the Second World War a scale alike to those sustained during the First World War. In mid-July Operation Goodwood was launched by Lieutenant General Richard O'Connor's VIII Corps, with the intention of forcing the Germans to commit their armoured reserves to the British on the eastern flank of the Normandy beachhead, while the Americans in Operation Cobra broke out from the Cotentin Peninsula on the western flank. The 21st Army Group, under General Bernard Montgomery and comprising the Canadian First Army, under Lieutenant General Harry Crerar, and British Second Army, under Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey, followed up the American break out, trapping the German