The Wars of the Green Berets: Amazing Stories from Vietnam to the Present - Softcover

Moore, Robin; Lennon, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163450416X ISBN 13: 9781634504164

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2015

Synopsis

Legendary adventurer and raconteur Robin Moore has teamed up with third-generation Army officer Michael Doc” Lennon to share the stories of the soldiers who have earned the right to wear the Green Beret.

From Vietnam to the present day, The Wars of the Green Berets retells the stranger-than-fiction, hair-raising experiences of the stout men who have risked it all, from their firefights on the Cambodian border to their present-day patrols on the dangerous streets of Baghdad. It takes us to the streets of Mogadishu in the days before and after the events of Black Hawk Down. It puts us on the rocky moonscapes of Afghanistan in search of the enemy, where soldiers face the dangers of friendly fire as well as fierce Taliban fighters.

Featuring a new foreword by a former Green Beret about the continued efforts and role Special Forces play in modern warfare, this is a work of fiction that is more real than many works of history. It’s destined to become a classic.

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About this title

About the Author:

Robin Moore is the bestselling author of The French Connection, as well as more than thirty other novels and nonfiction books. He is still the only civilian ever to go through the Special Forces Qualification ("Q") course.
Michael Lennon has served on active and reserve duty since 1982. He is the recipient of the Bronze Star.

From Publishers Weekly:

Moore's 1965 bestseller The Green Berets helped bring the army's special forces to the U.S. collective consciousness; here he collaborates with special ops staff officer Lennon for this disappointing historical that traces the "Shadow Warriors" from their early days in Vietnam to Operation Desert Storm (1991), Somalia (1993), Afghanistan (2001) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003). Each conflict furnishes the setting for a discrete story of special operations units in combat, the stories loosely linked by a handful of recurring characters. Mike Apin, for example, fights as a young draftee at Dak Pek, a besieged special forces camp in Vietnam; he turns up in Afghanistan with the 5th special forces group fighting alongside native tribesmen and surfaces again in Iraq in 2003 with the CIA searching for WMD sites. The episodes are fictionalizations of real anecdotes gathered by Moore and Lennon, but character, plot and dialogue (on Iraq: "This is going to degenerate into an insurgency against us and probably civil war") get short shrift. Readers interested in the exploits of special forces are better served by recent nonfiction accounts like Linda Robinson's Masters of Chaos and Robert Kaplan's Imperial Grunts.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 163450416X
• ISBN 13: 9781634504164
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260