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Warrior Elite Nigel Cawthorne

Warrior Elite By Nigel Cawthorne

Warrior Elite by Nigel Cawthorne


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Summary

Presenting real-life stories, this title recounts over two dozen of modern warfare's most riveting, dangerous, and infamous missions.

Warrior Elite Summary

Warrior Elite: 31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama bin Laden by Nigel Cawthorne

THE ULTIMATE WARRIORS Highly trained and equipped to kill, special-ops forces take on the world's most dangerous and courageous missions. Warrior Elite zeroes in on the most lethal special- ops encounters of all time. * RAID AT SON TAY Helicopter gunships drop 100 Green Berets into North Vietnamese jungle on a virtual suicide mission to rescue POWs * MAERSK ALABAMA Perfect planning and precise execution come together as Navy SEALs fire the greatest simultaneous sniper shots ever * BATTLE OF TORA BORA In the pitch-black labyrinthine caves of Afghanistan, Special Forces dispatch Taliban insurgents in a video game--like scenario of infrared warfare * KILLING OF BIN LADEN With the plan up in smoke as a Black Hawk goes down, SEAL Team 6 deftly adjusts on the fly--getting in and eliminating the target in just 7 minutes

Warrior Elite Reviews

Serial Killers and Mass Murderers: Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals-NIGEL-CAWTHORNE -9781569755785-14.95-Ulysses Press-1/25/07-14000--
History of Pirates: Blood and Thunder on the High Seas-NIGEL-CAWTHORNE -9780785818564-7.99-BOOK SALES INC-6/1/04-43000--
The Mammoth Book of Inside the Elite Forces-NIGEL-CAWTHORNE -9780762433827-13.95-Running Press-08/05/2008-2000--
The Mammoth Book of Killers at Large -NIGEL-CAWTHORNE -9780786719747-13.95-Running Press-8/27/07-6000--

About Nigel Cawthorne

Nigel Cawthorne is the author of Serial Killers and Mass Murderers, as well as numerous other books. His writing has appeared in more than 150 newspapers and magazines, including the Financial Times, Sun, Flatbush Life, and The New York Tribune. He lives in London, UK.

Table of Contents

Including: -Raid on Son Tay in an attempt to free US prisoners held in North Vietnam, 1970 -British SBS land on Queen Elizabeth 2 in mid-Atlantic after bomb threat, 1972 -German special forces failure at the Munich Olympics (leading to formation of influential GSG-9), 1972 -Operation Eagle Claw, attempted rescue of US Embassy hostages in Tehran, 1980 -Iranian Embassy siege, London, 1980 -Operation Just Cause, the invasion of Panama, 1990 -Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 1991 -"Black Hawk Down", the Battle of Mogadishu, Somalia, 1993 -Battle of Tora Bora, Afghanistan, 2001 -Operation Anaconda, Afghanistan, 2002 -Battle of the Debecka Pass, Iraq, 2003 -"Decapitation" operations, Afghanistan, 2008-present -Delta Force captures Saddam, 2003 -Hostage rescue of foreign workers in Iraq, June 8, 2004 -Operation Redwing - ill-fated attempt to rescue Navy SEALS in Afghanistan, 2005 -Navy SEALs Rescue Captain Phillips from Pirate Captors, April 12, 2009 -Rescue of Jessica Lynch, April 1, 2003 -Air Force special ops rescue seven survivors of Haiti earthquake, 2010

Additional information

GOR004401535
9781569759301
1569759308
Warrior Elite: 31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama bin Laden by Nigel Cawthorne
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Ulysses Press
2011-07-12
296
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