Hazardous Duty: A Colonel's Shocking Expos? of High Command Incompetence and Corruption from Desert Storm to Bosnia.

Hackworth, David H.

ISBN 10: 0380727420 / ISBN 13: 9780380727421

Published by William Morrow Paperbacks, 1997

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Softcover, minor wear, pages tanned, binding tight, a very nice copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hazardous Duty: A Colonel's Shocking Expos? of High Command Incompetence and Corruption from Desert Storm to Bosnia.
• Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0380727420
• ISBN 13: 9780380727421
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very good
• Weight: 14 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military::Vietnam

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Synopsis

The author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller About Face, Colonel David H. Hackworth is one of America's most decorated soldiers, having served at the end of World War II, and in Korea and Vietnam. Retired from the military since 1971, he has completed second tour of battlefield duty -- this time as a war correspondent -- accompanying our nation's fighting men and women to the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Somalia, Korea and Haiti. What he learned of high-level military incompetence, futility and corruption in the heat and fury of Desert Storm -- and in the desperation of the Balkans and Mogadishu -- is shocking, frightening and infuriating...and it must be told.

Hazardous Duty is a necessary wake-up call for military reform -- a no-holds-barred, no-punches-pulled exposé that calls America's top political and military leaders to account for selling out duty, honor and country. It is riveting, real-life adventure of courageous warriors on the world's new battlefields -- and of their systematic betrayal by the weakness of an increasingly wasteful and inept high command. It offers essential solutions to problems that must be addressed if our nation is to remain the foremost military power in a volatile and ever-changing world.

About the Author

David H. Hackworth first enlisted in the United States Army at age 15. He served in the military for 25 years, rising to the rank of Colonel. He writes real-life thrillers. He divides his time between New York and Montana. Tom Matthews lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, and Sag Harbor, New York.