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

Lennon, Michael; Moore, Robin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602390541 ISBN 13: 9781602390546

Publisher: Skyhorse, 2007

Synopsis

Authors Robin Moore and Michael Lennon team up in this exciting new novel to tell the “fictionalized” stories of the men who have risked it all for the U.S.A.: the Green Berets.  They take us from firefights on the Cambodian border during the Vietnam War to the streets and alleyways of Iraq today. They teach us what it was really like to patrol the streets of Mogadishu in the days of Black Hawk Down. They show the horror that was Saddam’s Iraq during the first Gulf War. They take us to the moonscape that is Afghanistan in search of the Taliban. The Wars of the Green Berets continues the saga of Moore’s classic The Green Berets, revealing more than a few tantalizing secrets and anecdotes for the first time.

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: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1602390541
• ISBN 13: 9781602390546
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256