A journalist with unique access tells the gripping, never-before-told, inside story of America's elite troops in ac
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English Pages 417 pages Year 2009
Table of contents :
Cast of Characters
PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Leaving Home
Chapter 2 Earning The Green Beret
Chapter 3 Just Cause
Chapter 4 Desert Storm
Chapter 5 Somalia
Chapter 6 Conus
Chapter 7 The Balkans
Chapter 8 Afghanistan
Chapter 9 Western Iraq
Chapter 10 Southern Iraq
Chapter 11 Central Iraq
Chapter 12 Nasiriya
Chapter 13 Viking Hummer (And The Ugly Baby)
Chapter 14 The Green Line
Chapter 15 Coming Home
Chapter 16 The Future of the Special Forces
Acknowledgments
Index.