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The Green Berets
- The Amazing Story of the U.S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
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Harvard graduate Robin Moore’s classic best seller The Green Berets: The Amazing Story of the U.S. Army’s Elite Special Forces Unit is a gripping work of fiction, heavily based on time which the author spent embedded in a US Army Special Forces unit that toured Vietnam in 1963.
Jim Frangione’s performance in this eye-opening audiobook is spot-on, his gruff voice perfectly suited to the endless action and often horrific descriptions of on-the-ground combat in a violent and unpredictable warzone. Even after half a century, Moore’s tight, tense prose is still gripping, and his insights about humanity in wartime still stirring and relevant.
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Robin Moore became one of the first true embedded journalists by training with and fighting alongside the Green Berets in Vietnam. Though fictionalized, his work is an eye-opening exposé of the horrors of the Vietnam War and the basis for the hit John Wayne movie of the same title. Taut, fast-paced, and interspersed with unforgettable accounts of combat, Moore’s novel features an American major who goes "native" with Montagnard tribesmen, a courageous Vietnamese girl who poses as a rabid anti-American Communist to capture a murderous Viet Cong officer, and the unforgettable acts of courage of soldiers in the field.
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- Ian porter
- 04-05-17
"Deep under cover"....
This was, an is one of the best books written about the Green beanie, an the men privileged to wear one. Wish the book had been longer. Anyone interested in this subject will enjoy this . Very much... terrifically b brave men an all the indigenous tribes men they taught N thought with an along side.... really very impressed......
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- MR BAIG
- 11-12-21
Interesting
Some of the stories literally stop you in your tracks . The green beret. It says it all. It’s such a pity that this is not required reading , the lessons of the past just seem never to be learned. I thought the best story was when they went behind enemy lines to hit them where it hurts and the saddest most cynical was the admission that the local people who work with or became agents rarely survived the op
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- alan rhodes
- 24-02-23
Was an informative book . It was bit Al over so hard to follow as a story pasay
Learned new things and was impressed but left me wondering even to this day whether the right officers are running things ? We can see with Russians in the Ukraine how good it can be to have the wrong officers running things and the hate they feel toward different companies within their own forces but they are disgusting anyway .
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- Brian Smith
- 04-02-23
Green berets
Excellent understanding of what goes on behind closed doors in conflict zones the where the why and the how
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- daniel shaw
- 17-11-21
a real eye opener on how the war was fought
really good book a real eye opener on how the war was fought and lost with the poor veitnames being bullied by other countries the french being the worst in my mind and the young American soldiers who lost their lives for nothing
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- Philip Eddington
- 17-01-23
A cracking account
This is indeed very interesting and offers an insight not often seen. I hope a further update becomes available
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