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Making a Night Stalker
(Hardcover)
David Burnett; Edited by Kendra Middleton Williams; Foreword by George Diaz
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The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious
events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary
outpouring of poetry. Yet the prodigious poetic voice of its
American participants remains largely unheard; the complex ethical
terrain of their experiences underexplored. In A Shadow on Our
Hearts, Adam Gilbert rectifies these oversights by utilizing the
vast body of soldier-poetry to examine the war's core moral issues.
The soldier-poets provide important insights into the ethical
dimensions of their physical and psychological surroundings before,
during, and after the war. They also offer profound perspectives on
the relationships between American soldiers and the Vietnamese
people. From firsthand experiences, they reflect on what it meant
to be witnesses, victims, and perpetrators of wartime violence. And
they advance an uncompromising vision of moral responsibility that
indicts a range of culprits for the harms caused by the conflict.
Gilbert explores the powerful and perceptive work of these
soldier-poets through the lens of morality and presents a radically
alternative, deeply personal, and ethically penetrating account of
the American war in Vietnam.
Nine men. 2,000 enemies. No back-up. No air support. No rescue. No
chance... First in - the official motto of one of the British
Army's smallest and most secretive units, 16 Air Assault Brigade's
Pathfinder Platoon. Unofficially, they are the bastard son of the
SAS. And, like their counterparts in Hereford, the job of the
Pathfinders is to operate unseen and undetected deep behind enemy
lines. When British forces were deployed to Iraq in 2003, Captain
David Blakeley was given command of a reconnaissance mission of
such critical importance that it could change the course of the
war. It's the story of nine men, operating alone and unsupported,
50 miles ahead of a US Recon Marine advance and heading straight
into a hornets' nest, teeming with thousands of heavily armed enemy
forces. This is the first account of that extraordinary mission -
abandoned by coalition command, left with no option but to fight
their way out of the enemy's backyard. And it provides a gripping
insight into the Pathfinders themselves, a shadowy unit, just 45
men strong, that plies its trade from the skies. Trained to
parachute into enemy territory far beyond the forward edge of
battle - freefalling from high altitude breathing bottled oxygen
and employing the latest skydiving technology - the PF are unique.
Because of new rules introduced since the publication of BRAVO TWO
ZERO, there have been no first-hand accounts of British Special
Forces waging modern-day warfare for nearly a decade. And no member
of the Pathfinders has ever told their story before. Until now.
PATHFINDER is the only first-hand account of a UKSF mission to
emerge for nearly a generation. And it could be the last.
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