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Before the Green BeretsÂ...Before the Navy SEALsÂ...Before the Army RangersÂ...There was the Long Patrol.
November 1942: in the hellish combat zone of Guadalcanal, one man would make history.
Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson was considered a maverick by many of his comrades—and seen as a traitor by some. He spent years observing guerrilla tactics all over the world, and knew that those tactics could be adapted effectively by the Marines.
Carlson and an elite fighting force—the 2nd Raider Battalion—embarked upon a thirty-day mission behind enemy lines where they disrupted Japanese supplies, inflicted a string of defeats on the enemy in open combat, and gathered invaluable intelligence on Japanese operations on Guadalcanal. And in the process they helped lay the foundation for Special Forces in the modern military.
Here for the first time is a riveting account of one man, one battalion, and one mission that would resonate through the annals of military history.
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"Evans Carlson was not an ordinary U.S. Marine officer. He was a maverick.... In 1942, Carlson led the Long Patrol, spending 30 days behind Japanese lines on Guadalcanal, always moving, always killing and always disrupting.... [American Commando] brilliantly details Carlson's life and career."--San Antonio Express-News
"Wukovits [brings] events to life with skill and vibrancy. In one such passage, describing the hardships the battalion endured during its Long Patrol on Guadalcanal, the author gives one of the most vivid accounts available of men fighting and trying to survive in a tropical jungle."--Naval HistoryAbout the Author
John Wukovits is the author of One Square Mile of Hell and Pacific Alamo, as well as several military biographies and articles.
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- PublisherNew Amer Library
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 0451226925
- ISBN 13 9780451226921
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages336
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