American Commando American Commando

American Commando

Evans Carlson, His WWII Marine Raiders and America's First Special Forces Mission

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Publisher Description

Before the Green Berets...Before the Navy SEALs...Before the Army Rangers...There was the Long Patrol.

November 1942: in the hellish combat zone of Guadalcanal, one man would make history.

Lt. Col. Evans Carlson was considered a maverick by many of his comrades-and an outright traitor by others. He spent years observing guerrilla tactics all over the world, and knew that those tactics could be used effectively by the Marines.

Carlson and an elite fighting force-the 2nd Raider Battalion-embarked upon a thirty-day mission behind enemy lines where they disrupted Japanese supplies, inflicted a string of defeats on the enemy in open combat, and gathered invaluable intelligence on Japanese operations on Guadalcanal. And in the process they laid the foundation for every branch of Special Forces in the modern military.

Here, for the first time, is a riveting account of one man, one battalion, and one mission that would forever change the ways of warfare.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2009
June 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Rusty Tuffputts ,

Inside the Ropes of 2d Raider Bn

I learned much from reading this book. They weren’t perfect and they made mistakes…..but they learned from those mistakes and carried on. Truly remarkable people that answered the call….and the call was enormous.

garthwr ,

Good Read

A great account of the start of the present day special forces.

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