Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War (Abridged Nonfiction) Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War (Abridged Nonfiction)

Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War (Abridged Nonfiction‪)‬

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Publisher Description

At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force". The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop, the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so that bombing runs could be accurately targeted. They were to go where no troops had gone, to become one with the jungle, to leave themselves behind and get deep inside the enemy's mind.

The experiment went terribly wrong.

What happened during the seven months Tiger Force descended into the abyss is the stuff of nightmares. Their crimes were uncountable, their madness beyond imagination, so much so that for almost four decades, the story of Tiger Force was covered up under orders that stretched all the way to the White House. Records were scrubbed, documents were destroyed, men were told to say nothing.

But one person didn't follow orders. The product of years of investigative reporting, interviews around the world, and the discovery of an astonishing array of classified information, Tiger Force is a masterpiece of journalism. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for their Tiger Force reporting, Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss have uncovered the last great secret of the Vietnam War.

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
HC
Harry Chase
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
05:53
hr min
RELEASED
2006
May 15
PUBLISHER
Hachette Audio
PRESENTED BY
Audible.com
SIZE
176.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Rick 7140 ,

Serial Killers

When you get officers that have just as many mental problems as their troops this is what you get, a platoon of serial killers and baby killers. This should not be called " A true story of men at war" It should be titled "A true story of men at crime". This is an awful incident with the most shocking thing of all occurring at the end of the book. In real life things don't always turn out like a Hollywood movie, all neat and tidy at the end.

Hooligan451 ,

A company of the mentally unfit.

I have to admit when I started this book I thought it would be just another war novel (which isn't a bad thing) but when I listned a bit longer into the story I realized that it was much much more. The maddness that these men decend into is sudden and quite shocking and the actions that these men deminstrate is very disturbing. This book is excellant example of soliders psyce and how , givin the right conditions, they can become little more then murderous animals.

hueypilot ,

killers

the book is A true story about men and war because if there are no officers to keep the company in shape this happens and its displays everthing. yes it is men and crime but its also much more like maybe the war haveing a toll on them duh...

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