The Raid - Softcover

Schemmer, Benjamin F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345446968 ISBN 13: 9780345446961

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2002

Synopsis

Describes a remarkable and dangerous covert operation designed to rescue sixty-one-American POWs from a prison compound in North Vietnam, revealing the truth behind the failed mission the role of the CIA, Pentagon, and White House in maintaining a cover-up. Original.

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About the Author

<b>Benjamin F. Schemmer</b>, a West Point graduate, Ranger, and paratrooper, is uniquely qualified to write on military matters from several vantage points. His military service included three years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he became director of land-force weapons systems. <br><br>From 1968 to 1992, he edited the privately owned <i>Armed Forces Journal International</i> and later <i>Strategic Review</i>, published by the United States Strategic Institute. He has written major feature articles for <i>The</i> <i>Washington Post</i> and <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, and is a frequent lecturer at military command, staff, and war colleges. He has appeared on network and cable news including, ABC, CNN, <i>Larry King Live</i>, and <i>Crossfire</i>.<br><

From the Inside Flap

s after 2 A.M. on November 21, 1970, more than one hundred U.S. war planes shattered the dark calm of the skies over Hanoi. Their mission: rescue sixty-one American POWs from Son Tay prison. Less than thirty minutes later, the raid was over, but no Americans had been rescued. The prisoners had been moved from Son Tay four and a half months earlier and that wasn’t all. Part of the raiding force landed at the wrong compound, a “school” bristling with enemy soldiers, but the soldiers weren’t Vietnamese . . . <br><br></b>Replete with fascinating insights into the workings of high-level intelligence and military command, <i>The Raid</i> is Benjamin Schemmer’s unvarnished account of the courageous mission that was quickly labeled an intelligence failure by Congress and a Pentagon blunder by the world press. Determined to ferret out the truth, Schemmer uncovers one of the CIA’s most carefully guarded secrets. From the planning and live-fire rehearsals to th

Edition details

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345446968
• ISBN 13: 9780345446961
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback