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The Secret History Of The Special Forces
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September 2005
On Sale: September 6, 2005
416 pages
ISBN: 1586483528
EAN: 9781586483524
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
Special Forces soldiers are daring, seasoned troops from
America's heartland, selected in a tough competition and
trained in an extraordinary range of skills. They know
foreign languages and cultures and unconventional warfare
better than any U.S. fighters, and while they prefer to stay
out of the limelight, veteran war correspondent Linda
Robinson gained access to their closed world. She traveled
with them on the frontlines, interviewed them at length on
their home bases, and studied their doctrine, methods and
history. In Masters of Chaos she tells their story
through a select group of senior sergeants and field-grade
officers, a band of unforgettable characters like Rawhide,
Killer, Michael T, and Alan -- led by the unflappable Lt.
Col. Chris Conner and Col. Charlie Cleveland, a brilliant
but self-effacing West Pointer who led the largest
unconventional war campaign since Vietnam in northern Iraq.
Robinson follows the Special Forces from their
first post-Vietnam combat in Panama, El Salvador, Desert
Storm, Somalia, and the Balkans to their recent trials and
triumphs in Afghanistan and Iraq. She witnessed their secret
sleuthing and unsung successes in southern Iraq, and
recounts here for the first time the dramatic firefights of
the western desert. Her blow-by-blow story of the attack on
Ansar al-Islam's international terrorist training camp has
never been told before.
The most comprehensive
account ever of the modern-day Special Forces in action,
Masters of Chaos is filled with riveting, intimate
detail in the words of a close-knit band of soldiers who
have done it all.
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