Phantom Leader - Softcover

Berent, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416504141 ISBN 13: 9781416504146

Publisher: Ibooks, 2005

Synopsis

Amidst the fury of the Tet offensive, four of America's bravest warriors make life or death decisions on land and in the air as they struggle against the ruthless enemy and against the limitations of the human spirit. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

MARK BERENT served in the Air Force for over twenty years, first as an enlisted man and then as an officer. He has logged 4,350 hours of lying time, over 1,000 of them in combat. During his three Vietnam tours, Berent earned not only the Silver Star, but two Distinguished Flying Crosses, air medals, a Bronze Star, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and Legion of Merit.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this Vietnam-era sequel to Rolling Thunder and Steel Tiger , Berent takes his well-established characters into the period of the Tet Offensive. Fighter pilot Court Bannister and forward air controller Toby Parker are assigned to form a new unit for a new mission: flying high-performance fighters as "fast forward air control" to interdict night movement of supplies and reinforcements down the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Special Forces lieutenant-colonel Wolf Lochert continues to fight his war on the ground--much of it against trumped-up charges of murdering an enemy agent. The novel's real antagonists, indeed, are less the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong armed forces than the ignorant politicians and malevolent activists back in the U.S. Berent's flogging of this familiar theme sacrifices impact for repetition. But Berent remains without peer in the battle zone, describing the dynamics of an air war waged in a restrictive environment against a determined enemy. And his stomach-turning--and essentially accurate--depictions of the treatment of American pilots in Vietnamese captivity are timely reminders that there is no such thing as a Nintendo war.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ibooks
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1416504141
• ISBN 13: 9781416504146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 433