The Green Berets
The Amazing Story of the U. S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2007
368 pages
978-1-62636-931-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Vietnam, Robin Moore became on the of the first true "embedded? journalists, training and fighting alongside America's most elite fighters. Though fictionalized, The Green Berets exposed the American public to the horrors of the ground war in Vietnam, and gave the men of the Green Berets the recognition they deserved.
Here is the tale of the courageous South Vietnamese girl posing as an anti-American Communist to capture the Viet Cong officer who murdered her family. Here is the graft and double-dealing of South Vietnamese officers undercutting America's war effort. More importantly, here are America's soldiers showing unimaginable bravery in the face of a determined and deadly enemy.
With a foreword by Major General Thomas R. Csrnko reflecting on the history and future of this elite fighting unit, The Green Berets stands as an enduring classic.
"One of the most exciting war books.? -London Sunday Telegraph
Here is the tale of the courageous South Vietnamese girl posing as an anti-American Communist to capture the Viet Cong officer who murdered her family. Here is the graft and double-dealing of South Vietnamese officers undercutting America's war effort. More importantly, here are America's soldiers showing unimaginable bravery in the face of a determined and deadly enemy.
With a foreword by Major General Thomas R. Csrnko reflecting on the history and future of this elite fighting unit, The Green Berets stands as an enduring classic.
"One of the most exciting war books.? -London Sunday Telegraph
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Robin Moore is the bestselling author of The French Connection and The Hunt for Bin Laden, as well as more than thirty other novels and nonfiction books. He is the only civilian ever to go through the Special Forces Qualification ("Q?) course.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword by Major General Thomas R. Csrnko
- Introduction to the 2007 Edition
- Introduction to the 1999 Edition
- Badge of Courage
- A Green Beret-All the Way
- The Immortal Sergeant Hanks
- Combat Pay
- The Cao-Dai Pagoda
- Two Birds With One Stone
- Coup De Grâce
- Home to Nanette
- Fourteen VC POWs
- The Immodest Mr. Pomfret
- Hit 'Em Where They Live
- The Consummate Green Beret General Henry Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Afterword: The Lesson of the Wall
