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Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda

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Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda

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Back Bay Books
Language
English
Pages
688

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Subjects
Special forces (Military science), Special forces (military science)

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To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
2009, Little Brown & Company
in English
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To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
March 2, 2007, Back Bay Books
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To dare and to conquer: special operations and the destiny of nations, from Achilles to Al Qaeda
2006, Little, Brown, and Co., Time Warner Book Group
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First Sentence

"LESS THAN six weeks after a band of kamikaze air pirates destroyed the World Trade Center towers and blasted in the Pentagon's northeast face, 199 U.S. Army Rangers parachuted into the night upon an isolated landing strip sixty miles from Kandahar deep in the southern Afghan desert."

Table of Contents

Contents. Page V
Introduction. Page 3
Part I.
Chapter 1. Who Dares Wins Page 17
Chapter 2. Even Troy Must Fall Page 40
Chapter 3. Birth of World Power Page 65
Chapter 4. A Terrible Few Page 97
Part II.
Chapter 5. The Great Wheel Turns Page 129
Chapter 6. War of The Worlds Page 147
Chapter 7. No Peace Beyond the Line Page 184
Chapter 8. A Hazard of New Fortunes Page 213
Chapter 9. The Old World and the New Page 235
Part III.
Chapter 10. To Try Men's Souls Page 273
Chapter 11. The Fate of Glory Page 308
Chapter 12. New Frontiers Page 339
Chapter 13. Strange Fulfillments Page 358
Chapter 14. From Spark to Flame Page 385
Part IV.
Chapter 15. Sinister Twilight Page 419
Chapter 16. So far, the Main Event Page 442
Chapter 17. Dawn Like Thunder Page 498
Chapter 18. Invasion from the Future Page 532
Conclusion. Page 581
Acknowledgments. Page 599
Notes. Page 601
Selected Bibliography. Page 637
Index. Page 650

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Library of Congress
U262, U262 .L44 2007

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
688
Dimensions
9 x 6 x 1 inches
Weight
1.5 pounds

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OL9341958M
ISBN 10
0316014230
ISBN 13
9780316014236
OCLC/WorldCat
84842817
Library Thing
839696
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387098

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