Gentlemen Bastards: On the Ground in Afghanistan With America's Elite Special Forces - Hardcover

Maurer, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425252698 ISBN 13: 9780425252697

Publisher: Berkley Pub Group, 2012

Synopsis

Gentlemen Bastards The Green Berets--a legendary corps of soldiers whose exploits made military history. But now, their very identity and role as a fighting force may be forever changed... Until the war in Iraq, Special Forces were the military's counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transforming Northern Al... Full description

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This story brings to life the unique men who form the ranks of the Green Berets and the Herculean tasks they must accomplish. Rusty Bradley, author of Lions of Kandahar
[A] powerful look at Special Forces and the daily grind of tracking down the Taliban, terrorists, and other bad guys in Afghanistan. Mitch Weiss, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and critically acclaimed author of Tiger Force and No Way Out
Humorous, stark, and honest, Gentlemen Bastards shows the reality of the war in Afghanistan. Nathan Edmondson, author of The Activity "

"This story brings to life the unique men who form the ranks of the Green Berets and the Herculean tasks they must accomplish."--Rusty Bradley, author of Lions of Kandahar

"[A] powerful look at Special Forces and the daily grind of tracking down the Taliban, terrorists, and other bad guys in Afghanistan." --Mitch Weiss, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and critically acclaimed author of Tiger Force and No Way Out

"Humorous, stark, and honest, Gentlemen Bastards shows the reality of the war in Afghanistan." --Nathan Edmondson, author of The Activity

About the Author:

Kevin Maurer is an award-winning reporter who has covered special operations forces for seven years. He has been embedded with the U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan six times in the last five years and spent a month with special operations units in Africa in 2006. Maurer covered the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan’s first parliamentary election. Most recently, he covered the Bush Administration’s surge into Baghdad, and wrote the definitive piece about the transformation of Khost from a terrorist haven to a working province in Afghanistan.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0425252698
• ISBN 13: 9780425252697
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242