Navy Seals
Subtitle: Their Untold Story
Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780062336606
Description: Written with the cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, here is the definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs, a chronicle that reveals the inside story behind the greatest combat operations of our nation's most celebrated warriors. The authors draw on exclusive interviews with more than 100 special operators (including multiple Medal of Honor recipients), as well as thousands of pages of declassified documents, to create a vivid portrait of the SEALS in action.
Table of contents: title: Naval Special Warfare Command Organizations; title: Preface / William Doyle; title: Preface / Dick Couch; title: Author's note; title: Fantastic hour; title: Dawn of the naked warriors; title: Hot war, cold water; title: Birth of the SEALs; title: Into the jungle; title: Tragedy and resurrection: the post-Vietnam years; title: Terror and destiny: Mideast and antiterror operations; title: Epilogue; title: Afterword / Rear Admiral Garry J. Bonelli; title: Appendix A: U S Special Operations Command Structure; title: Appendix B: Naval special Warfare Command : Missions and Structure; title: Appendix C: Overview of Naval Special Warfare Legacy Units / Tom Hawkins; title: Appendix D: Seal Ethos/Creed; title: Appendix E: Those who made the ultimate sacrifice; title: Notes on key sources