Search query: spetznaz

Product: The Break Line (Max McLean Book 1)
Description: British intelligence operative and hardened assassin, Max McLean, battles a nightmarish enemy in this stunning debut thriller from an award winning war correspondent.
When it comes to killing terrorists British intelligence has always had one man they could rely on, Max McLean. As an assassin, he's never missed, but Max has made one miscalculation and now he has to pay the price.
His handlers send him to Sierra Leone on a seemingly one-way mission. What he finds is a horror from beyond his nightmares. Rebel forces are loose in the jungle and someone or something is slaughtering innocent villagers. It's his job to root out the monster behind these abominations, but he soon discovers that London may consider him the most disposable piece in this operation.
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Product: Spetsnaz: A Permadeath LitRPG LitFPS RealRPG GameLit novel (Permadeath GameLit Book 2)
Description: Would you play an online game if it meant you could die? If every limb lost or eye gouged was replicated in real life? Would you still play then?

The 49ers don't have a choice. Drafted into the army, and fighting a virtual war, they're on their last life. Once, all you had to do was use your 50 lives to survive 100 missions and you could go home but now, on the brink of defeat, European High Command has decreed that soldiers who hit 49 deaths are to be kept permanently in the game.

It's 2100, France has been devastated by nuclear explosions, and ChinKor Republic troops are searching for those responsible. Trapped in France, the 49ers must team up with Russian special forces, the feared Spetsnaz, to escape the devastation. Together they will wreak havoc as they blast their way through the enemy forces. The 49ers is a regiment of Last Chancers, doing whatever it takes to stay alive.
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Product: Secret Armies: The full story of the SAS, Delta Force and Spetsnaz
Description: Trained to fight in any climate or terrain.

The best of the best.

Special forces are in the vanguard of modern warfare.

The names of their battlegrounds are familiar.

Vietnam. Mogadishu. Kabul. The Iranian Embassy. Banjul. The Falklands. Grenada.

Surgical strike or counter-terrorist operation, training guerrillas or quashing coups, time has proven that even the smallest number of these highly-trained operatives can achieve what an army cannot.

But not every mission has been successful, and nor has support for them been constant.

These deadly armies lie hidden from public scrutiny.

Who recruits and trains these secret soldiers?

How effective are they?

…and who controls them?

In this chilling analysis James Adams unveils the secret world of the SAS, Delta Force and Spetsnaz.

Adams also reveals the workings of West Germany’s GSG 9, France’s GIGN, Egypt’s Force 777 and Israel’s Unit 269.

Secret Armies is a sobering yet gripping study of special forces and their military and politica role, in an ever-changing world.

Praise for Secret Armies

‘Blends solid research, military technology, lucid explanation and clear narrative with a leavening of marvellous anecdotes, some zany, others tragic’ – Frederick Forsyth

‘Providing new material on the structure, training and combat experience of Spetzsnaz, the Soviet's secret army.’ – Publishers Weekly

Praise for James Adams

‘uncovers a close, multi-faceted strategic relationship that has been consciously nurtured in secret.’ – Washington Report

James Adams is acknowledged as one of the world’s leading experts on intelligence, covert warfare and terrorism and has written 15 bestselling books around those subjects. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England and now lives in Ashland, Oregon. He worked at The London Sunday Times as both the Defense Correspondent and Managing Editor. He then became CEO of United Press International, founded a cyber intelligence company and a virtual intelligence agency. He was on the Board of the National Security Agency where he was responsible for creating a new strategic plan for Signals Intelligence and he was also Chairman of the Technology Advisory Panel to oversee NSA’s multi-billion dollar investment in new technology.
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Product: Black Ops - Heroes of Afghanistan: Spetsnaz Assassin
Description: Rafe Stoner is a gun for hire, a former Navy SEAL whose skills are in constant demand in his adopted home of Afghanistan. His legitimate business is selling surplus machinery, or so his tax return states. His real work is less prosaic, and makes him a good living from a grateful client base. The removal of inconvenient rivals is a way of life in the violent and war-torn nation.
When a name surfaces during a conversation in a bar, the alarm bells ring. Khan. A name from the past, a man he thought he’d killed. He was wrong. The warlord clawed his way back from his injuries, and has sworn a lifelong vow. Stoner must die, along with those few people who are closest to him. Yet the SEAL vet is no easy target, and Khan needs professionals capable of carrying out the hit. He finds them. Spetsnaz.
Inside Afghanistan, the bitterest memories of the Soviet invasion are reserved for the brutal Spetsnaz. Callous killers, men without scruple or mercy. Forced out after the Russian economic crisis brought deep cuts to the military, many mercenaries. Murder for hire, payment in advance. No questions asked. Willing recruits for Khan’s mission of vengeance.
Their first attack is a hit against Stoner’s friends, Greg and Faria Blum, and their three children. An attack that launches him into a desperate struggle against the Russian experts, who will stop at nothing to kill him and his friends. He has no option but to fight hard to survive against the Russian mercenaries. Then to finish the job he started all those years ago. To kill Khan, or die in the attempt.
This is an incredible story of tough, violent men in a tough, violent land. Black-Ops: Heroes of Afghanistan Spetsnaz Assassin is the latest title by the bestselling author of many Special Ops novels. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, the Raider series, Echo Six, and a number of Devil's Guard titles.
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Product: Spetsnaz: The Inside Story of the Soviet Special Forces
Description: Viktor Suvorov is a Soviet army officer who has defected to the West. Here is the full story of the Spetsnaz forces, the Soviet army's secret killer elite.

This is the first comprehensive insight for the West into a Soviet "army within an army" whose existence has been known until recently only to a few highly placed people--most of whom would deny it.

The spetsnaz Soviet special forces are one of the more shadowy and ruthless secret special forces in the world. Controlled by military intelligence (the GRU), spetsnaz units are recruited from the ranks of the toughest officers and men in the Soviet Army, the cutting edge of Soviety military might. In modern warfare their primary task is the destruction of enemy tactical nuclear weapons, but the training of anyone selected for spetsnaz prepares him or her for an unlimited range of tasks--from undercover activity as a member of a Soviet Olympic sports team to piloting a midget submarine.

As an officer in the GRU, the author was directly involved in the control and planning of spetsnaz. In this revealing and sometimes shocking book, he talks about his own experience; about the military code of an armed force that kills its own wounded; about the weapons, strategy, and training. For anyone interested in the true military capability of the Soviet Union, this book is essential reading.
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Product: Russian Hand to Hand Combat: Techniques of the Spetsnaz - Special Forces
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Product: The Russian Elite: Inside Spetsnaz and the Airborne Forces
Brand: Brand: Greenhill Pr
Description: The Russian Elite: Inside Spetsnaz and the Airborne Forces
Used Book in Good Condition
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Product: USMC Publication on the SPETSNAZ, FMFRP 3-201, 1991
Description: This is a Fleet Marine publication concerning the Soviet Union's special forces known as SPETSNAZ printed in 1991. Excellent basic information about organization, threat capabilities, basic tactics, etc.
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Product: Spetsnaz Manual of the Military Scout: Tactics and Techniques of the Russian Special Purpose Forces
Brand: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Product: Spetsnaz
Brand: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Product: An Incident On Simonka
Brand: Independently Published
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Product: The Crimson Beret: Who Else but Us? Revelations by a Special Forces Officer
Brand: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency, LLC
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Product: Never the Last One: A Novel of Spetznaz
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Product: Spetsnaz: Russia’s Special Forces (Elite)
Brand: Osprey Publishing
Osprey Publishing UK
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Product: Inside Spetsnaz: Soviet Special Operations : A Critical Analysis
Brand: Brand: Presidio Pr
Description: Book by Amundsen, Kirsten
Used Book in Good Condition
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Product: Spetsnaz: Scout Physical Training Manual
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