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Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces Paperback - 2001
by Tom Clancy
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- Paperback
Tom Clancy brings his flair for military fiction to the real thing and takes readers closer than most civilians have ever been to the operatives on which our national security depends. "Special Forces" is a new addition to Clancy's bestselling military nonfiction library as he takes a first-hand look at the history, hardware, and heroics of today's most lethal men and women, including the Green Berets. Maps, diagrams & photos.
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- Title Special Forces: A Guided Tour of U.S. Army Special Forces
- Author Tom Clancy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, New York
- Date 2001-01-31
- Features Bibliography, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 10850039
- ISBN 9780425172681 / 0425172686
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Commando troops, Special forces (Military science) - United
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00065121
- Dewey Decimal Code 356.16
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Summary
They are sent to the world's hot spots-on covert missions fraught with danger. They are called on to perform at the peak of their physical and mental capabilities, primed for combat and surveillance, yet ready to pitch in with disaster relief operations. They are the Army's Special Forces Groups. Now follow Tom Clancy as he delves into the training and tools, missions and mindset of these elite operatives.
Special Forces includes:
Special Forces includes:
- The making of Special Forces personnel: recruitment and training
- A rare look at actual Special Forces Group deployment Exercises
- Tools of the trade: weapons, communications and sensor equipment, survival gear
- Roles and missions: a mini-novel illustrates a probable scenario of Special Forces intervention
- Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams
First line
Most of us probably think of them as Green Berets-just like the song says.
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Citations
- Booklist, 02/01/2001, Page 1024
- Publishers Weekly, 01/01/2001, Page 79