Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
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Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
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Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
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Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
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Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Reno, Reno, NV, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.43.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : HPB-Emerald, Dallas, TX, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Little River Book Peddlers, Woodstock, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Book Club Edition. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1983. Book club edition hardcover book in Very Good condition; light shelf wear along the edges and corners; uniform toning along page edges. Dust jacket in Good condition, with general shelf wear to the edges and corners; minor scratches on the back panel. 21020054, 1 lb, M-3.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, Etats-Unis
Etat : Good. Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.3.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Campbell Bookstore, Austin, TX, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, Etats-Unis
Etat : very good. Gently used book with ongoing seller support until you're fully satisfied with your purchase.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : GoldenDragon, Houston, TX, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : very good. Very Good Copy. Fast Shipment.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Toscana Books, AUSTIN, TX, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : GoldBooks, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
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Edité par Harcourt, San Diego, CA, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : M & M Books, ATHENS, GA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Pieuler Store, Suffolk, Royaume-Uni
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Edité par Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 310, Endpaper maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. DJ edges worn, soiled and has small tears and chips. Charles Alvin "Charlie" Beckwith (January 22, 1929 - June 13, 1994) was a career U.S. Army Special Forces officer best remembered for creating Delta Force, the premier asymmetrical warfare unit of the U.S. Army. He served in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War, and attained the rank of colonel before his retirement. As the 7th SFG(A) operations officer, Beckwith went to work revolutionizing Green Beret training. Beckwith recognized that, "Before a Special Forces Green Beret soldier could become a good unconventional soldier, he'd first have to be a good conventional one." Beckwith restructured 7th's training, basically rewriting the book on Army special operations training from the real-world lessons he had learned with the SAS. Beckwith also had learned that a symbol of excellence like a beret had to be earned. Derived from a Kirkus review: Charlie Beckwith was the ground commander who unhesitatingly aborted the Iranian-hostage rescue mission, told the country why, and held up his head. What we didn't know was that Beckwith had worked and fought for nearly 20 years to get his elite counter-terrorist unit, Delta Force, into operation and then to train it for what was to be its historic baptism-of-fire. There's flavor, color, drama, and conviction here. In 1962, as a "hotshot Green Beret captain with Special Operations experience," Beckwith arrived in England to spend a year with the British Special Air Service. The officers were on a first-name basis; officers and sergeants held a weekly, all-night bull session; but the training exercises were "deadly serious," and physically and mentally shattering. US Army-man Beckwith--"Straight lines. Square corners. Yes, sir! No, sir! Three bags full!"--was disoriented; impressed, converted. He went to Malaya with the SAS, proud to have earned his regimental beret; deathly sick (with leptospirosis), he refused removal to an American army hospital; going home, "I knew I had stumbled upon a concept" of a special, flexible, behind-the-lines unit--that "would improve many of the things we did." Nobody wanted to hear. Beckwith wrote a report, submitted it, agitated, put it away. In Vietnam, he made his crack DELTA unit as autonomous, and SAS-like, as Special Forces would permit. Still no response. Meanwhile Beckwith "decided to get my act together"--earned the credits he needed for a college degree, got a promotion and "the one job that fitted me perfectly": commandant of the Special Forces School. Then in 1975, almost "out of nowhere," he was asked to prepare a report on the SAS. There follows a dogged, explosive struggle to get the Delta Force concept approved; to recruit and train the unit (shooting, climbing, detonation skills; operate selected machinery and wheeled and track vehicles; stabilize an injured person. . .); and, from the day after the embassy seizure, to prepare for a rescue mission. Beckwith had no doubt then, and he has none now, that Delta could have extricated the hostages had they gotten to the compound without triggering a massive Iranian military response; by his accounting, the helicopter piloting was a problem from the outset; there was never any question of proceeding "without six flyable helicopters." General Vaught shouldn't have asked him to--and, if ordered to go on (from the White House), he would have pretended audio-transmission problems. Forthright first-person history--engrossing and eye-opening even for those with reservations about special operations or the rescue mission. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Etats-Unis
Etat : new.
Edité par Harcourt, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : New.
Edité par Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, CA, 1983
ISBN 10 : 0151246572 ISBN 13 : 9780151246571
Vendeur : Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Hardcover. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Fair. Myrtali Anagnostopoulos (Endpaper maps) (illustrateur). ix, [1], 310 pages. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Glossary. Index. Black line on bottom edge. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Harcourt Author biography press release laid in. Harcourt press release review laid in. Charles Alvin "Charlie" Beckwith (January 22, 1929 - June 13, 1994) was a career U.S. Army Special Forces officer best remembered for creating Delta Force, the premier asymmetrical warfare unit of the U.S. Army. He served in the Malayan Emergency and the Vietnam War, and attained the rank of colonel before his retirement. As the 7th SFG(A) operations officer, Beckwith went to work revolutionizing Green Beret training. Beckwith recognized that, "Before a Special Forces Green Beret soldier could become a good unconventional soldier, he'd first have to be a good conventional one." Beckwith restructured 7th's training, basically rewriting the book on Army special operations training from the real-world lessons he had learned with the SAS. Beckwith also had learned that a symbol of excellence like a beret had to be earned. Donald Knox (1936-1986), an award-winning television producer and director, was the author of several books on military history, including The Korean War and Death March. Donald Knox (1936-1986), an award-winning television producer and director, was the author of several books on military history, including The Korean War and Death March. Derived from a Kirkus review: Charlie Beckwith was the ground commander who unhesitatingly aborted the Iranian-hostage rescue mission, told the country why, and held up his head. What we didn't know was that Beckwith had worked and fought for nearly 20 years to get his elite counter-terrorist unit, Delta Force, into operation and then to train it for what was to be its historic baptism-of-fire. There's flavor, color, drama, and conviction here. In 1962, as a "hotshot Green Beret captain with Special Operations experience," Beckwith arrived in England to spend a year with the British Special Air Service. The officers were on a first-name basis; officers and sergeants held a weekly, all-night bull session; but the training exercises were "deadly serious," and physically and mentally shattering. US Army-man Beckwith--"Straight lines. Square corners. Yes, sir! No, sir! Three bags full!"--was disoriented; impressed, converted. He went to Malaya with the SAS, proud to have earned his regimental beret; deathly sick (with leptospirosis), he refused removal to an American army hospital; going home, "I knew I had stumbled upon a concept" of a special, flexible, behind-the-lines unit--that "would improve many of the things we did." Nobody wanted to hear. Beckwith wrote a report, submitted it, agitated, put it away. In Vietnam, he made his crack DELTA unit as autonomous, and SAS-like, as Special Forces would permit. Still no response. Meanwhile Beckwith "decided to get my act together"--earned the credits he needed for a college degree, got a promotion and "the one job that fitted me perfectly": commandant of the Special Forces School. Then in 1975, almost "out of nowhere," he was asked to prepare a report on the SAS. There follows a dogged, explosive struggle to get the Delta Force concept approved; to recruit and train the unit (shooting, climbing, detonation skills; operate selected machinery and wheeled and track vehicles; stabilize an injured person. . .); and, from the day after the embassy seizure, to prepare for a rescue mission. Beckwith had no doubt then, and he has none now, that Delta could have extricated the hostages had they gotten to the compound without triggering a massive Iranian military response; by his accounting, the helicopter piloting was a problem from the outset; there was never any question of proceeding "without six flyable helicopters." General Vaught shouldn't have asked him to--and, if ordered to go on (from the White House), he would have pretended audio-transmission problems. Forthright first-person history--engrossing and eye-opening even.