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  • The Green Berets

  • The Amazing Story of the U.S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit
  • By: Robin Moore
  • Narrated by: Jim Frangione
  • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (961 ratings)

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The Green Berets

By: Robin Moore
Narrated by: Jim Frangione
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Robin Moore became one of the first true embedded journalists by training with and fighting alongside the Green Berets in Vietnam. Though fictionalized, his work is an eye-opening exposé of the horrors of the Vietnam War and the basis for the hit John Wayne movie of the same title. Taut, fast-paced, and interspersed with unforgettable accounts of combat, Moore’s novel features an American major who goes "native" with Montagnard tribesmen, a courageous Vietnamese girl who poses as a rabid anti-American Communist to capture a murderous Viet Cong officer, and the unforgettable acts of courage of soldiers in the field.

©1965, 1999, 2007 Robin Moore (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
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  • Categories: History
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Harvard graduate Robin Moore’s classic best seller The Green Berets: The Amazing Story of the U.S. Army’s Elite Special Forces Unit is a gripping work of fiction, heavily based on time which the author spent embedded in a US Army Special Forces unit that toured Vietnam in 1963.

Jim Frangione’s performance in this eye-opening audiobook is spot-on, his gruff voice perfectly suited to the endless action and often horrific descriptions of on-the-ground combat in a violent and unpredictable warzone. Even after half a century, Moore’s tight, tense prose is still gripping, and his insights about humanity in wartime still stirring and relevant.

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Green Berets Nam and beyond

Being a Green Beret Commo Man I identified with so very much coming out of Oki in 69 as a 05B/C as I did, Commo Men were hard to come by, and we shuffled thru POR near Kin Village and on to where ever we were needed, CCK, Thailand, Nam, Laos, Cambodia and this book although Fiction, was tight with a lot of truth...Much credit was given to both sides of SF, and about how ferocious in fact the VC were...Definitely not afraid to die for their Country...
I truly enjoyed this Audiobook and very well done and Moore was awesome...
Recommend anyone who is interested in SF and some Green Beret history needs to either read or listen up, it’s definitely five by...
1st & the 7th SFG(A)...

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great stuff

since things are different these days it's time for a new forward in a final chapter as technology has complicated all issues

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new addition was good.

I love that it was the updated addition with the opening and follow on stories at the end.

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Stands the tests of ages

This is one of the classics as far as war fiction goes. Except, as the author notes, it isn't really fiction. The stories told in this tome may be altered to preserve confidences, but the events they describe are real. Within this novel you will find heroism and tragedy, and even love. The audible narration is particularly noteworthy for its professionalism; a true story time narration.

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great history of our secret soldiers and secret so

soldiers warriors smart great history of our secret soldiers and secret soldiers hard men and women

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Great just great

this book hit Vietnam right on the head. the narrator was great on point and not hard to listen to

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Great book

It is finally so good to hear the true stories of these hero’s. Thanks to Mr Moore

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The best Veitnam war book I have ever read.

I've read alot of book on the history of war and the us special forces (green berets and navy seals). This book is the best one about the veitnam war and the green berets. Tolded from a place of honesty and bluntness I can appreciate.

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Modern Day Heros

In our current world where news comes from bloggers and Facebook, it was incredibly refreshing to read first hand accounts from Robin Moore, who is not only a writer but a civilian graduate of airborne school and special forces training. I wish the writing was a little more engaging, personal, and actual names and places were used, but otherwise this is a great book.

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Not bad.

Over not a bad book. At thecsame time not a great book. Worth listening to for those who enjoy linked short stories of A teams or A team leaders in Vietnam

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