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Trigger Men
- Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, American Combat Sniper
- By: Hans Halberstadt
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 467
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 211
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 211
Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes listeners deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before, from recruitment and training to the brutality of the killing fields. Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews, Halberstadt gets inside the sniper mind and shows how snipers think and interact with each other, how missions are planned and executed, how the weapons work, and even what happens when a bullet finally strikes its target.
There are only a few hundred snipers from all the services put together in combat at any one time, making this true inside story a rare and important event.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One Shot, One Listen
- By Leostriple on 07-20-08
- Trigger Men
- Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, American Combat Sniper
- By: Hans Halberstadt
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
Great Book
Reviewed: 03-16-10
This is a fascinating book for anyone interested in things military and combat arms in particular. The author, who served in Vietnam, is a good solid writer who knows the military and understands it.
The voice of the narrator, Johnny Heller, is perfect for thhis type of book. He has enough "grit" to sound believable. Some narrators sound too prissy or scholarly, and don't give credibility to this type of work. I found only a few minor mispronuciations, such as "Hue City" (in Vietnam) where "Hue" rhymed with "you." (It is actually pronounced "way"). The book, however, is about the modern sniper in Iraq and Afganistan, and gives great insight to the tools and training of this outstanding and very elite group of young men and women. Highly recommended.
VN Vet
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