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Casualties of War

Casualties of War

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by H. Jay Riker
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The Snake in the Desert

The first generation of SEALs was forged in the steaming jungles of Vietnam, their deadly skills honed by combat. But jealousy brewing within the U.S. military bureaucracy threatened the future of the warrior elite, and shortsighted thinking forced them into pitched battles in Grenada and Panama that the SEALs shouldn't have fought and couldn't have won. Now the opportunity has finally come for redemption when the tanks of a ruthless Middle Eastern despot roll across the unprotected borders of a neighboring nation. Here, in a world of blood and oil, a new generation of SEALs is going in first to fight a new kind of war on its terms — as Hunter–Killer teams of America's deadliest commandos plunge into a fast and murderous game of hide-seek-and-strike on Iraqi sands.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Seals, The Warrior Breed

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    October 13, 2009

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9780061753695

    • EPUB ebook

      • ISBN: 9780061753695
      • File size: 522 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 30, 1997
      War hero cliches--including gratuitous sexual encounters, barroom brawls and impossibly long death scenes--run amok in this bloated first installment of a trilogy chronicling the rise of the U.S. Navy's elite commando team. During WW II, Lt. Joe Galloway is charged with the task of assembling highly skilled sailors into a crack demolitions unit. Those chosen for this hazardous duty, including girl-crazy rich kid Hank Richardson and street-smart wiseacre Vince Tangretti, are forced to overcome their differences to form a team known as the Naval Combat Demolitions Unit. Also along for the ride is troubled ranger scout Frank Rand, an Annapolis dropout eager to prove his valor to his blustery war-hero dad. These warriors are to advance ahead of the Allied lines and eliminate such obstacles as tank traps and mine fields. To this end, their training, which commences with the hackneyed greeting ``Ladies, welcome to Hell,'' is an ordeal of protracted suffering, intended to prepare recruits (and readers) for the upcoming Allied invasion of Normandy. H. Jay Riker is a joint pseudonym for literary agent Bill Fawcett and Kevin Dockery ( SEALS in Action ).

Formats

  • OverDrive Read
  • EPUB ebook

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Languages

  • English

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