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The Guerrilla Factory: The Making Of Special Forces Officers, The Green Berets (2012)

by Tony Schwalm(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1451623607 (ISBN13: 9781451623604)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Free Press/Simon & Schuster, Inc.

review 1: I had mostly read about Navy Seals before, so it was interesting to read Schwalm's account of his training and life as a Green Beret. Think I liked reading most about the Green Beret's help in Haiti in the 1990s. Too bad the US didn't support Haiti as much after their earth quakes as they did when trying to destabilise a government, and prop up their own administration. (My judgement, could be wrong!)
review 2: This book was of particular interest to me, because the author and I are roughly the same age; had things gone a bit differently during the late 1980s, we might have ended up serving together at some point. There are many biographies/autobiographies/memoirs written by or about U.S. military personnel who served during the Cold War era, and there are beg... moreinning to be quite a few focused primarily on the years since September 11th, 2001; there are comparatively few, however, which cover the twenty-six years between the fall of Saigon and the attack on the World Trade Center. This book will no doubt be eventually recognised as one of the better ones. In addition to being well-written, it provides an excellent and detailed account of Special Forces training during the 1990s, and simply for those two reasons I would recommend it highly. According to the short biographical note on the back flap, as of last year Lieutenant Colonel Schwalm, now retired from the army, was working as a Department of the Army civilian employee assigned to the CJSOTF-Afghanistan. Hopefully, he will write another book on his experiences there... less

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