Warrior Elite: 31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama bin Laden
Drop into some of history's most death-defying military missions conducted by elite special forces in the world's most dangerous war zones

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
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Warrior Elite: 31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama bin Laden
Drop into some of history's most death-defying military missions conducted by elite special forces in the world's most dangerous war zones

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

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

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

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

by Nigel Cawthorne

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Overview

Drop into some of history's most death-defying military missions conducted by elite special forces in the world's most dangerous war zones

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781569759301
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Publication date: 07/12/2011
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 8.24(w) x 5.64(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

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

Introduction 7

1 Raid on Son Tay 11

2 Special Operations at Sea 21

3 The Munich Olympics 36

4 The Mayaguez Incident 44

5 Raid on Entebbe 52

6 Operation Eagle Claw 60

7 Iranian Embassy Siege, London 66

8 MIA Rescue Mission 71

9 The FalklandsWar 84

10 Operation Urgent Fury 95

11 Achille Lauro 100

12 Operation Just Cause 106

13 Somalia 111

14 Desert Shield and Desert Storm 115

15 Black Hawk Down 139

16 Battle of Qala-i-Jangi 157

17 Battle ofTora Bora 187

18 Operation Anaconda 196

19 Operation Iraqi Freedom 210

20 Battle of Debecka Pass 230

21 Pack of Cards 238

22 Rescue of Jessica Lynch 250

23 Capture of Saddam Hussein 254

24 Hostage Rescue Iraq 259

25 Operation Redwing 267

26 Task Force 88 276

27 Decapitating the Taliban and al-Qaeda 284

28 Rescue from Somali Pirates 291

29 Operation Celestial Balance 295

30 Haiti Earthquake 299

31 Killing of Osama bin Laden 305

Glossary 315

About the Author 320

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