The greatest special ops stories ever told / / edited by Tom McCarthy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910823215403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Guilford, Connecticut : , : Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016]
• ISBN: 1-4930-2207-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 356.160973
• Soggetti: Special operations (Military science) - United States - History; Battles - United States - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; Snipers, Brothers; The Best-Laid Plans: Mission to Tehran; Riding with Quantrell; Kicking Charlie's Ass; "Daring beyond the Point of Martial Prudence"; Jumping into North Korea; The Green Faced Frogmen, An Oral History; The Final Battle for Murphy's Ridge; The Marauders' First Mission: Walawbum; The First Rangers: Fighting the French and Indians; Rebel Raider: Mosby the Gray Ghost; The Marine Raiders of the Pacific; Sources
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Marcus Luttrell (author of Lone Survivor), Mark Owen (author of No Easy Day: the Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden), William Morgan, Christian McBurney, James Otis, H. Beam Piper, Duane Schultz, Hampton Sides, Michael Haas, Ben S. Malcolm, and many others. It includes lege