Hunting Down Saddam: The Inside Story of the Search and Capture

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		Hunting Down Saddam: The Inside Story of the Search and Capture
		Hunting Down Saddam: The Inside Story of the Search and Capture

基本信息·出版社：Saint Martin's Press; 1 edition
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2004年07月
·ISBN：0312329164
·条形码：9780312329167
·装帧：精装
·外文书名：追捕萨达姆

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This authoritative and insightful account plunges the American public into the real and personal story of the United States Special Forces on the ground in Iraq, and their efforts in the hunt for Saddam Hussein. Robin Moore has captured the friendship and admiration of the Special Forces and has carefully nurtured that relationship over the decades since his # 1 bestseller, The Green Berets. With approval from the upper branches of the Army, he has interviewed returning troops from Iraq, as well as Special Forces still there. As he travelled to Afghanistan to interview troops on the front line for his earlier book, now Robin Moore is spending time in Iraq interviewing Special Forces. Hunting Down Saddam contains, up-to-the-minute material into 2004, and provides never-before-heard accounts of the triumphs and frustrations, strategies and attacks, of those who have put their lives at risk to track down one of the most vicious leaders in the world. The secret entry into Iraq of the IOth Special Forces Group (Ft. Carson, Colorado) on March 21st, the first day of declared war. Special Forces and Florida National Guard raise the first United States flag on foreign soil in Iraq. Special Forces 3rd Group flies into Masul, in Kurdish territory to reinforce the 10TH Group. Behind the scenes look at the funeral of a chief Kurdish political officer's son, who was killed by friendly fire from United States fighter plane. In attendance are the commanding officer and Sgt. Major of the 10TH Special Forces group. Action-packed and controversial, Hunting Down Saddam is teeming with inside information as Moore gets the real story out of these fighting men.
作者简介 Robin Moore won the admiration of the Green Berets forty years ago during the Vietnam War. That admiration has not flagged with a new generation of soldiers. To this day, Moore receives letters from enlisted men who say the book The Green Berets motivated their career in the Special Forces. A nose gunner (B-17) in World War II, Robin Moore spent his seventy-eighth birthday in Iraq, interviewing troops for Hunting Down Saddam. When not in war zones or on army bases, he makes his home in Concord, Massachusetts.

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The doughty author of The Green Berets and the instant-seeming The Hunt for Bin Laden gives us this jumbled but valuable set of accounts of crucial operations in the Iraq war. The focus is on Special Forces, to which the author remains loyal, given his background with them going back to the Vietnam War. Moore, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, went to Iraq last year, at the age of 78, and followed Task Force VIKING's (the military uses all caps when referring to such objective-oriented groups) work with the highly factionalized Kurdish armed forces, as well as Task Force DAGGER's infiltration of southern Iraq, neither much covered in the general media. Also unique to this book is the narrative of a 4th Infantry battalion's operations in Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's hometown and a center of continued Iraqi resistance, where American troops and their Iraqi allies accomplished a good deal of nation building, or at least peacekeeping, while taking casualties. The grand finale is, of course, Saddam's capture in a "spiderhole" outside Tikrit, where the story had to end in order to meet the publication deadline. This may have led to the slightly rushed feel of the prose, but the pro-military tone is expected from the author and his assistants and informants, most retired or serving military. Also rushed, but vivid, are portraits of those Americans who are still at the "sharp end" in Iraq, who deserve knowledgeable portrayals of and full credit for their dangerous work, which they receive here. This book adds to our knowledge of how Spec Ops have been integrated with regular units (with a high degree of success) in the last generation, and it will appeal to Moore's established audience and to serious students of Special Operations, along with most people interested in the Iraq war. The pressing topic should carry many readers over the book's awkward prose and fragmented structure.
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"A fast and furious read . . . when the historians try to put together the real facts of the two wars the U. S. has fought since September 11, 2001 this book will be a valuable contribution to their research."
- Doris Kearns Goodwin

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