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Air Commando One: Heinie Aderholt and America's Secret Air Warsby Warren A. TrestISBN 156098807X (1-56098-807-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Among Warriors In Iraq: True Grit, Special Ops, and Raiding in Mosul and Fallujahby Mike TuckerISBN 1592287328 (1-59228-732-8)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Ardennes 1944: Peiper and Skorzenyby Jean-Paul Pallud, Martin WindrowISBN 0850457408 (0-85045-740-8)
Softcover, Osprey Pub Co
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern Warby Mark BowdenISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War'Book summary:Ninety-nine elite American soldiers are trapped in the middle of a hostile city. As night falls, they are surrounded by thousands of enemy gunmen. Their wounded are bleeding to death. Their ammunition and supplies are dwindling. This is the story of how they got there -- and how they fought their way out.
This is the story of war.
Black Hawk Down drops you into a crowded marketplace in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia with the U.S. Special Forces and puts you in the middle of the most intense firelight American soldiers have fought since the Vietnam war.
Late in the afternoon of Sunday, October 3, 1993, the soldiers of Task Form Ranger was send on a mission to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take them about an hour. Instead, they were pinned down through a long and terrible night, locked in a desperate struggle to kill or be killed.
When the unit was finally rescued the following morning, eighteen American soldiers were dead and dozens more badly injured. The Somali toll was far worse; more than five hundred felled and over a thousand wounded. Award-winning literary journalist Mark Bowden's dramatic narrative captures this harrowing ordeal through the eyes of the young men who fought that day. He draws on his extensive interviews of participants from both sides -- as well as classified combat video and radio transcripts -- to bring their stories to life.
Authoritative, gripping, and insightful, Black Hawk Down is a riveting look at the terror and exhilaration of combat destined to become a classic of war reporting. [via]
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- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0451203933 (0-451-20393-3)
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Softcover, New Amer Library - Black Hawk Down: ISBN 0871137380 (0-87113-738-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr - Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0140288503 (0-14-028850-3)
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- Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War: ISBN 0451203933 (0-451-20393-3)
Black Water: By Strength and by Guile A Life in the Special Boat Serviceby Don CamsellISBN 193098300X (1-930983-00-X)
Hardcover, Lewis Intl Inc
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Bravo Two Zeroby Andy McNabISBN 0440218802 (0-440-21880-2)
Softcover, Dell Pub Co
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Commando Extraordinaryby Charles FoleyISBN 0853688249 (0-85368-824-9)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Darkmoon : Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean Warby Ed EvanhoeISBN 1557502463 (1-55750-246-3)
Hardcover, Naval Institute Press
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Delta Force: The Army's Elite Counterterrorist Unitby Donald Knox, Charlie A. BeckwithISBN 0380809397 (0-380-80939-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Devil's Brigadeby Robert H. Adleman, George H. WaltonISBN 1591140048 (1-59114-004-8)
Softcover, Naval Inst Pr
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Eastern Approachesby MacLeanISBN 0809435659 (0-8094-3565-9)
Softcover, Time/Life Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eastern Approaches'Book summary:Fitztroy Maclean was one of the real-life inspirations for super-spy James Bond. After adventures in Soviet Russia before the war, Maclean fought with the SAS in North Africa in 1942. There he specialised in hair-raising commando raids behind enemy lines, including the daring and outrageous kidnapping of the German Consul in Axis-controlled Iraq. Maclean's extraordinary adventures in the Western Desert and later fighting alongside Tito's partisans in Yugoslavia are blistering reading and show what it took to be a British hero who broke the mould... [via]
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Entebbe: The Jonathan Netanyahu Story A Defining Moment in the War on Terrorismby Yoram Hazony, Iddo NetanyahuISBN 0892215534 (0-89221-553-4)
Softcover, New Leaf Pr
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Eye of the Storm: 25 Years in Action With the Sasby Peter Ratcliffe, Noel Botham, Brian HitchenISBN 1843170523 (1-84317-052-3)
Softcover, Ingram Pub Services
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Fighting Dirty: The Inside Story of Covert Operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Ladenby Peter HarclerodeISBN 0304364681 (0-304-36468-1)
Softcover, Cassell P L C
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From OSS to Green Beretby Aaron BankISBN 0671639234 (0-671-63923-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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From Oss to Green Berets: The Birth of Special Forcesby Aaron BankISBN 0891412719 (0-89141-271-9)
Hardcover, Presidio Pr
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The Green Berets at War: U.S. Army Special Forces in Asia, 1956-1975by Shelby L. StantonISBN 0891412387 (0-89141-238-7)
Hardcover, Presidio Pr
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War With Militant Islamby Mark BowdenISBN 0871139251 (0-87113-925-1)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Harvesting Pa Chay's Wheat: The Hmong and America's Secret War in Laosby Keith QuincyISBN 0910055602 (0-910055-60-2)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Human Factors Considerations of Undergrounds in Insurgenciesby Jerry M Tinker, John D. LenoirISBN 0898755409 (0-89875-540-9)
Softcover, Univ Pr of the Pacific
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The Hunt for Bin Ladenby Robin MooreISBN 0891418385 (0-89141-838-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunt for Bin Laden'Book summary:The first wave of U.S. Army Special Forces arrived in Afghanistan in mid-October, 2001; a few months later, they had routed the Taliban and taken control of the country. In fact, writes Robin Moore, "fewer than 100 American soldiers were on the ground when Kabul fell." The Hunt for Bin Laden is both a celebration of the Special Forces, "the most fearsome fighting unit the world has ever known," and a detailed account of how just a few hundred Green Berets, working alongside the Northern Alliance, were able to overcome nearly 100,000 entrenched al-Qaida and Taliban members and take control of Afghanistan in such a short time. Though Special Forces had participated in all of the small conflicts since World War II, the war in Afghanistan was the first time they were in charge of an entire operation. For these gung-ho soldiers, it was the moment they had been waiting for.
From the beginning, the operation was a blend of cutting-edge and 19th-century weaponry. The Northern Alliance soldiers, though brave and determined, were often outfitted with only rusted rifles and worn-out boots. In one particularly fascinating scene, Moore writes of the Northern Alliance cavalry leading a charge on horseback while American fighter jets roared overhead dropping laser-guided missiles with pinpoint accuracy on Taliban forces. The author of the military classic The Green Berets, Moore knows his subject intimately and his access to the troops on the ground is impressive. This makes the book incredibly detailed, but unquestionably subjective, so those interested in a political overview or an objective look at the policy behind the operation should look elsewhere. This is strictly a heroic portrayal of a military victory and the difficult search for Osama bin Laden, and at times Moore's writing sounds like copy out of Soldier of Fortune magazine. This bombast may not appeal to all readers, but his deep knowledge of Special Forces and his inside information makes this book a must read for those interested not only in this particular conflict but in how guerilla and unconventional warfare is executed. --Shawn Carkonen [via]More editions of The Hunt for Bin Laden:
The Hunt for Bin Laden : Task Force Dagger: On the Ground with the Special Forces in Afghanistanby Robin MooreISBN 0375508619 (0-375-50861-9)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Hunt for the Engineer: How Israeli Agents Tracked the Hamas Master Bomberby Samuel M. KatzISBN 1585747491 (1-58574-749-1)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Hunting Down Saddam: The Inside Story Of The Search And Captureby Robin MooreISBN 0312936672 (0-312-93667-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Hunting The Jackal: A Special Forces And CIA Soldier's Fifty Years on the Frontlines of the War Against Terrorismby Tim Keown, Billy WaughISBN 0060564105 (0-06-056410-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Immediate Actionby Andy McNabISBN 0440222451 (0-440-22245-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Imperial Grunts: On the Ground With the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyondby Robert D. KaplanISBN 1400034574 (1-4000-3457-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Imperial Grunts: The American Military On The Groundby Robert D. KaplanISBN 1400061326 (1-4000-6132-6)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imperial Grunts: The American Military On The Ground'Book summary:It is the dawn of the 21st century, and the United States has appropriated the entire Earth. So journalist Robert Kaplan writes in his paean to the American fighting man and woman, Imperial Grunts. The U.S. has quietly--with little public debate--forged an empire that is "ready to flood the most obscure areas of it with troops at a moment's notice," writes Kaplan, a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine who has written 10 earlier books on foreign affairs and travel, including the acclaimed Balkan Ghosts. Imperial Grunts is Kaplan's account of his travels to the frontiers of the U.S. imperium. From the dustbowl of northern Yemen to the coca fields of Colombia and the insurgent hotbed of Fallujah, Kaplan takes readers to the war-torn edges of the U.S. empire and visits with front-line grunts who guard it and try to expand its reach.
"Welcome to Injun Country," is the catchphrase Kaplan hears from all the U.S. soldiers, marines, airmen, and sailors we meet. In the view of American troops, they are taming an "unruly" frontier in the tradition of General George Custer. We all know what happened to Custer and, later, to the Native Americans whom the 7th Cavalry was sent out to pacify. But far from criticizing that mission or finding in the analogy any cautionary lesson, Kaplan is an enthusiastic cheerleader for what he baldly calls "American imperialism." He sees it as "humanitarian" and "righteous" and seems to never meet a Green Beret or marine he does not idolize. To Kaplan, U.S. imperialism is unquestionably selfless and heroic, trying only to bring a little taste of freedom to the huddled masses of the world. Imperial Grunts works well as a travelogue but fails to provide deeper insights--or opposing views--about the complex and fascinating places he explores. --Alex Roslin [via]
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In the Company of Heroesby Steven Hartov, Michael J. Durant, M. BowdenISBN 0451210603 (0-451-21060-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unitby Eric L. HaneyISBN 0385339364 (0-385-33936-4)
Softcover, Delta
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside Delta Force: The Story Of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit'Book summary:Now the inspiration for the CBS Television drama, "The Unit."
Delta Force. They are the U.S. Army's most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions, and no book has ever taken readers insideuntil now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force takes us behind the veil of secrecy and into the action-to reveal the never-before-told story of 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-D (Delta Force).
Inside Delta Forece
The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit
He is a master of espionage, trained to take on hijackers, terrorists, hostage takers, and enemy armies. He can deploy by parachute or arrive by commercial aircraft. Survive alone in hostile cities. Speak foreign languages fluently. Strike at enemy targets with stunning swiftness and extraordinary teamwork. He is the ultimate modern warrior: the Delta Force Operator.
In this dramatic behind-the-scenes chronicle, Eric Haney, one of the founding members of Delta Force, takes us inside this legendary counterterrorist unit. Here, for the first time, are details of the grueling selection processdesigned to break the strongest of menthat singles out the best of the best: the Delta Force Operator.
With heart-stopping immediacy, Haney tells what it's really like to enter a hostage-held airplane. And from his days in Beirut, Haney tells an unforgettable tale of bodyguards and bombs, of a day-to-day life of madness and beauty, and of how he and a teammate are called on to kill two gunmen targeting U.S. Marines at the Beirut airport. As part of the team sent to rescue American hostages in Tehran, Haney offers a first-person description of that failed mission that is a chilling, compelling account of a bold maneuver undone by chanceand a few fatal mistakes.
From fighting guerrilla warfare in Honduras to rescuing missionaries in Sudan and leading the way onto the island of Grenada, Eric Haney captures the daring and discipline that distinguish the men of Delta Force. Inside Delta Force brings honor to these singular men while it puts us in the middle of action that is sudden, frightening, and nonstop around the world.
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Inside the Green Beretsby Charles M. SimpsonISBN 0425091465 (0-425-09146-5)
Softcover, Presidio Pr
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Inside the Sasby Tony GeraghtyISBN 0898390397 (0-89839-039-7)
Hardcover, Battery Pr
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The Iranian Rescue Mission: Why It Failedby Paul B. RyanISBN 0870213210 (0-87021-321-0)
Hardcover, Naval Inst Pr
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The Jungle Is Neutralby F. Spencer ChapmanISBN 1592281079 (1-59228-107-9)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlawby Mark BowdenISBN 0142000957 (0-14-200095-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw'Book summary:Readers of Black Hawk Down know Mark Bowden can tell an exciting story about as well as any writer at work today. Killing Pablo is further proof. It describes the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, a notorious Colombian drug lord who became one of the narcotic trade's first billionaires. Pablo--Bowden refers to him by his first name throughout the book--started out as a petty thief and wound up running a massive smuggling empire. At his height in the 1980s, he owned fleets of boats and planes, plus 19 separate residences in Medellin, each with its own helipad. Violence marked everything he did: "He wasn't an entrepreneur, and he wasn't even an especially talented businessman. He was just ruthless." He bought off police, politicians, and judges throughout his country, and killed many others who wouldn't cooperate. The Colombian government tried to capture him, but without much luck; he evaded them time after time. "Now and then the police achieved enough surprise to catch him, literally, with his pants down. In [1988], about one thousand national police raided one of his mansions," writes Bowden. "Pablo fled in his underwear, avoiding the police cordon on foot." He got away, again, but his days were numbered. He was making powerful enemies in both Colombia and the United States. The final straw probably came when Pablo's men murdered a popular politician and, three months later, planted a bomb on a plane, killing 110 people, including two Americans.
The bulk of Killing Pablo describes what happened when the U.S. government put its resources behind the hunt for Pablo. Bowden describes the search in gripping detail, from the massive electronic-surveillance effort to bureaucratic infighting between rival U.S. agencies. This is an outstanding work of reportorial journalism, too: in the epilogue, Bowden drops tantalizing hints that it was an American--not a Colombian--who delivered the killing shot to Pablo in 1993. Readers looking for a real-life thriller--or any kind of thriller, for that matter--won't do much better than Killing Pablo. [via]
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Long Range Patrol Operations: Reconnaissance Combat and Special Operationsby James EnglandISBN 0873644034 (0-87364-403-4)
Softcover, Paladin Pr
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The Maraudersby Ogburn, Charlton, Jr.ISBN 1585672343 (1-58567-234-3)
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Masters Of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forcesby Linda RobinsonISBN 1586483528 (1-58648-352-8)
Softcover, Public Affairs
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters Of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces'Book summary:The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have given the U.S. Army's Special Forces, also known as the Green Berets, a central role in American military action like never before. Several hundred U.S. Special Forces operators helped a motley band of Afghan rebels orchestrate a stunning rout when they overthrew the Taliban after 9/11. In Iraq, as journalist Linda Robinson explains in Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces, Special Forces units were the main U.S. elements on the ground in the northern and western regions of the country, where they defeated government forces that outnumbered them many times over. Robinson tells the story of the Special Forces through the eyes of a few of its more colorful personalities, men with call signs like Rawhide and Killer. She follows them around the world from Panama and El Salvador to Somalia, Kosovo, and, finally, Afghanistan and Iraq. Surprisingly, however, she devotes only a few pages to the Green Beret-led victory in Afghanistan, even though it was arguably their greatest achievement since they were created after World War II.
Critics and supporters of the recent American interventions alike should find the technical proficiency of the Special Forces interesting and impressive. Each 12-soldier team may marshal more than a century of combined experience in weapons, foreign languages, intelligence, communications, air control, and trauma medicine. For a book about such an action-packed subject, though, Robinson's effort is somewhat dry, and she devotes more time to mundane background biographies than to the dramatic battle scenes in which the Special Forces invariably find themselves. In addition, Robinson's "secret history" is an authorized and sympathetic one, and readers may be left wondering what she may have left out of her accounts in order to maintain her access. --Alex Roslin [via]
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On Wings of Eaglesby Ken FollettISBN 0816136424 (0-8161-3642-4)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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One Day in September: The Full Story of the 1972 Munich Olympics Massacre and the Israeli Revenge Operation "Wrath of God"by Simon ReeveISBN 1559708131 (1-55970-813-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Paris Undergroundby Etta ShiberISBN 0809472589 (0-8094-7258-9)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Popski's Private Armyby Vladimir PeniakoffISBN 0304361437 (0-304-36143-7)
Softcover, Cassell P L C
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Reflections of a Warriorby Franklin D. Miller, Elwood J.C. KurethISBN 0891413871 (0-89141-387-1)
Hardcover, Presidio Pr
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The Rescuers: The World's Top Anti-Terrorist Unitsby Leroy ThompsonISBN 0873643941 (0-87364-394-1)
Hardcover, Paladin Pr
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Rogue Warriorby Richard Marcinko, John WeismanISBN 0671009826 (0-671-00982-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rogue Warrior'Book summary:A brilliant virtuoso of violence, Richard Marcinko rose through Navy ranks to create and command one of this country's most elite and classified counterterrorist units, SEAL TEAM SIX. Now this thirty-year veteran recounts the secret missions and Special Warfare madness of his worldwide military career -- and the riveting truth about the top-secret Navy SEALs.
Marcinko was almost inhumanly tough, and proved it on hair-raising missions across Vietnam and a war-torn world: blowing up supply junks, charging through minefields, jumping at 19,000 feet with a chute that wouldn't open, fighting hand-to-hand in a hellhole jungle. For the Pentagon, he organized the Navy's first counterterrorist unit: the legendary SEAL TEAM SIX, which went on classified missions from Central America to the Middle East, the North Sea, Africa and beyond.
Then Marcinko was tapped to create Red Cell, a dirty-dozen team of the military's most accomplished and decorated counterterrorists. Their unbelievable job was to test the defenses of the Navy's most secure facilities and installations. The result was predictable: all hell broke loose.
Here is the hero who saw beyond the blood to ultimate justice -- and the decorated warrior who became such a maverick that the Navy brass wanted his head on a pole, and for a time, got it. Richard Marcinko -- ROGUE WARRIOR. [via]
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A Rumor of Warby Philip CaputoISBN 0345331222 (0-345-33122-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rumor of War'Book summary:The extraordinary betseller that provides a close-up look unlike any other, at the American experience in Vietnam. Powerful, vivid, compassionate, and heartbreaking, here is a very personal and yet universal grunt's-eye-view of the hopeless brutality and the ultimate, and seemingly endless horror where men and governments sacrificed their morality and the souls of their nation. [via]
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The Sas at War: The Special Air Service Regiment 1941-1945by Anthony KempISBN 071954890X (0-7195-4890-X)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Sas Operation O'Manby Tony JeapesISBN 0898390540 (0-89839-054-0)
Hardcover, Battery Pr
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Sas: Secret War in South-East Asiaby Tony DickensISBN 1853675733 (1-85367-573-3)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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SAS Secret War: Operation Storm in the Middle Eastby Major Tony JeapesISBN 1853675679 (1-85367-567-9)
Softcover, Motorbooks Intl
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› Find signed collectible books: 'SAS Secret War: Operation Storm in the Middle East'Book summary:In 1970 the SAS were called in to support the Sultan of Oman's armed forces in their fierce campaign against a communist armed insurrection. This was first and last a war about people. The task in hand was not to obliterate the enemy but to persuade them to join the government's side and at the same time win the support of the civilians of the Jebel Dhofar. This is the gripping story of the part played in the conflict by squadrons of the 22nd Special Air Service Regiment, the first full SAS squadron in the region. Written by the man who commanded that unit and who successfully raised the first bands of Dhofari irregulars to fight for the Sultan, SAS: Operation Storm provides a unique and personal insight into what was to become one of the most successful counter-insurgency campaigns of the 20th century.[via]More editions of SAS Secret War: Operation Storm in the Middle East:
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Seal Sniper Training ProgramISBN 0873646835 (0-87364-683-5)
Softcover, Paladin Pr
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Secret Armies: Inside the American Soviet and European Special Forcesby James AdamsISBN 0871132230 (0-87113-223-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Secret Soldier: The True Life Story of Israel's Greatest Commandoby Robert Rosenberg, Moshe BetserISBN 0871136376 (0-87113-637-6)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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The Secret War Against Hanoi: Kennedy and Johnson's Use of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnamby Richard H. ShultzISBN 0060194545 (0-06-019454-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Secret War Against Hanoi: The Untold Story of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnamby Richard H. ShultzISBN 0060932538 (0-06-093253-8)
Softcover, Perennial
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Secret War Against Hanoi: The Untold Story of Spies, Saboteurs, and Covert Warriors in North Vietnam'Book summary:The Secret War Against Hanoi documents American covert actions in Vietnam, beginning in 1961 when John F. Kennedy decided that if Hanoi could wage a guerilla war against the South, the U.S. could do the same in the North. Dissatisfied with the CIA's initial results, Kennedy passed responsibility for covert operations to the Pentagon--which never fully supported them. For example, in an interview for this book, General Westmoreland, Commander of American forces in Vietnam, vastly underestimated the imaginative ways in which underground activities could destabilize an enemy. American covert action focused on disrupting two vital "centers of gravity": the North's own internal stability and the Ho Chi Minh Trail that ran through Laos and Cambodia. Such activities ran counter to the Geneva Accords, however, and nervous diplomats placed them under severe constraints. Permission always had to be obtained from the top, which after 1964 meant an excessively cautious President Johnson, concerned that China would be goaded into intervening openly in Vietnam as it had in Korea. The creative thinking that went into America's secret exploits reads like a racy novel, from the adroit brainwashing and release of captured fishermen to the fabrication of a phantom secret society based on a 15th-century anti-Chinese hero, plus innumerable nasty booby traps. Author Richard H. Shultz has had unusual access to prominent protagonists and to thousands of classified documents made available only to him while he researched this book. The Secret War Against Hanoi clearly lays out what was achieved and what might have been achieved by covert action in Vietnam, ending with a thoughtful analysis of lessons learned for future politicians and operatives in a post-cold war world. --John Stevenson [via]
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Silent Warriors of World War II: The Alamo Scouts Behind the Japanese Linesby Lance Q. ZedricISBN 0934793565 (0-934793-56-5)
Hardcover, Pathfinder Pub of California
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SOG: The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnamby John L. PlasterISBN 0451195086 (0-451-19508-6)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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Special Forces at War: An Illustrated History, Southeast Asia, 1957-1975by Shelby L. StantonISBN 0943231280 (0-943231-28-0)
Hardcover, Howell Pr
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Special Forces Waterborne OperationsISBN 087364493X (0-87364-493-X)
Softcover, Paladin Pr
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Surprise Attackby P. DarmanISBN 1566192064 (1-56619-206-4)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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Unconventional Warfare: Rebuilding U.S. Special Operations Forcesby Susan L. MarquisISBN 0815754752 (0-8157-5475-2)
Softcover, Brookings Inst Pr
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Waging Peace: A Special Operations Team's Battle To Rebuild Iraqby Rob SchultheisISBN 1592401279 (1-59240-127-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Warrior Soul: The Memoir Of A Navy Sealby Chuck PfarrerISBN 1400060362 (1-4000-6036-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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We Die Aloneby David HowarthISBN 1885283067 (1-885283-06-7)
Hardcover, Adventure Library
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We Die Alone: WWII Epic of Escape and Enduranceby David Howarth, Stephen E. AmbroseISBN 1599210630 (1-59921-063-0)
Softcover, Globe Pequot Pr
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US Army Rangers and LRRP Units 1942-87by Gordon L. Rottman, Ronald VolstadISBN 0850457955 (0-85045-795-5)
Softcover, Osprey Publishing, Limited
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Matar a Pablo Escobarby Mark Bowden, Claudio MolinariISBN 8479017651 (84-7901-765-1)
Hardcover, RBA Libros, S.A.
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