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Beyond hell and back : how America's Special Operations Forces became the world's greatest fighting unit / Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham.

Zimmerman, Dwight Jon. (Author). Gresham, John. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0312363877
  • ISBN: 9780312363871
  • Physical Description: 320 pages
  • Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin edition
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Sources for Sidebar Information 8 -- Chapter 1 Operation Kingpin: The Son Tay Raid 21 -- Chapter 2 Rescue of Bat 21 61 -- Chapter 3 For Want of a Nail...Operation Eagle Claw 99 -- Chapter 4 The 100 Percent Solution: Task Force Normandy 137 -- Chapter 5 Rescue of Captain Scott O'Grady 171 -- Chapter 6 Immaculate Mission: Oda 551 in the Karbala Gap 207 -- Chapter 7 Twenty-First-Century Alamo: Task Force Viking at Debecka Pass 241 -- Afterword: The Way Forward 285 -- Military Abbreviations and Acronyms 302.
Subject:
United States. Armed Forces > Commando troops > History.
U.S. Special Operations Command > History.
Special forces (Military science) > United States > History.
United States > Armed Forces > Commando troops > History.

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