Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History - Couverture rigide

Talty, Stephan

 
9781328866721: Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
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ISBN 10 : 1328866726 ISBN 13 : 9781328866721
Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018

Synopsis

The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and risked capture by both the North Vietnamese and the Soviets. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese partner had to sneak past them all to save him.

At the height of the Vietnam War, few American airmen are more valuable than Lt. Colonel Gene Hambleton. His memory is filled with highly classified information that the Soviets and North Vietnamese badly want. When Hambleton is shot down in the midst of North Vietnam’s Easter Offensive, US forces place the entire war on hold to save a single man hiding amongst 30,000 enemy troops and tanks. Airborne rescue missions fail, killing eleven Americans. Finally, Navy SEAL Thomas Norris and his Vietnamese guide, Nguyen Van Kiet, volunteer to go after him on foot. Gliding past hundreds of enemy soldiers, it takes them days to reach Hambleton, who, guided toward his rescuers via improvised radio code, is barely alive, deeply malnourished, and hallucinating after eleven days on the run.
 
In this deeply-researched, untold story, award-winning author Stephan Talty describes the extraordinary mission that led Hambleton to safety. Drawing from dozens of interviews and access to unpublished papers, Saving Bravo is the riveting story of one of the greatest rescue missions in the history of the Special Forces.

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À propos de l'auteur

STEPHAN TALTY is the best-selling author of The Black Hand, Agent Garbo, and A Captain’s Duty. His books have been made into two films, the Oscar-winning Captain Phillips and Granite Mountain. He’s written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, GQ, and Playboy.

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Éditeur
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1328866726
ISBN 13 
9781328866721
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
HarperCollins Publishers
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9780358118206: Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0358118204 ISBN 13 :  9780358118206
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2019
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