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(More customer reviews)This book is factually flawed and execrably written. the author can't even spell the names of some of his alleged primary sources (he cites Ron Yaw instead of Ron Yeaw; he cites Bucky Burruws instead of Bucky Burruss). He gets the specifics of the capture of Che Guevara wrong, making Felix Rodriguez a Green Beret instead of what he was, a b-contract foreign national cia agent operating under the cover name Felix Ramos Medina. The Green Beret involved in Che's capture was a Special Forces major named "Pappy" Shelton. he refers to the first co of Delta Force as Colonel "Charles" Beckwith. Beckwith was never known as Charles; he was always Charlie. he uses information from the marcinko bio, rogue warrior, as if he had actually interviewed marcinko, when he is simply appropriating copy from the book. He puts Marcinko on furlough from Petersburg prison in february, 1991, waiting for a federal marshal to take him back to prison. That is just plain fiction writing--and bad fiction at that. When Kuwait was liberated, marcinko was under lock and key at Petersburg. he gets so much information just plain wrong that one wonders whether or not his editors ever did any fact-checking on the manuscript, or ever checked his qualifications to write a book like this. Twilight Warriors is a third rate clip job that never deserved to get published in the first place.
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Every army has them. Every nation needs them. Now enter the world of...Twilight Warriors.Deadly Scud hunts in the Gulf War. Daring hostage rescue missions at London's Iranian Embassy and the Japanese Embassy in Peru. Special Forces go where no one else will...and do what no other army would dare...Now, in vivid, fascinating detail, journalist and counterterrorism expert Martin C. Arostegui tells their stories: secret training exercises in the Australian desert; pitched warfare in the Falklands, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East; and some of the most X-rated R&R strikes ever carried out around the world. From the weapons they use to the secrets they guard, this is the explosive story of the few, the elite, and the brave-- with the skill and daring to take on any enemy, any place, any time...Includes 8 pages of photographs!
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