The unofficlal historian of 'The Regiment'...

"The most damning evidence of all came from Peter Ratcliffe former RSM of 22 SAS during the Gulf War....neither (Steve Mitchell) McNab's or Ryan's written accounts of the Bravo Two Zero mission tallied with the official debriefings they had given in the UK after the war. He likened both books to 'cheap war fiction'.... (Asher,2002)
This author had left the UKSF at the time of the new contract,book published 2000