Warrior Elite: 31 Heroic Special-Ops Missions from the Raid on Son Tay to the Killing of Osama Bin Laden (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781569759301)

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

Author: Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN-10: 1569759308
ISBN-13: 9781569759301
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Language: English
Published: 07/12/2011
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.30d