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Tiger Force

A True Story of Men and War

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Tiger Force

By: Michael Sallah, Mitch Weiss
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At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as "Tiger Force". The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop, the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so that bombing runs could be accurately targeted. They were to go where no troops had gone, to become one with the jungle, to leave themselves behind and get deep inside the enemy's mind.

The experiment went terribly wrong.

What happened during the seven months Tiger Force descended into the abyss is the stuff of nightmares. Their crimes were uncountable, their madness beyond imagination, so much so that for almost four decades, the story of Tiger Force was covered up under orders that stretched all the way to the White House. Records were scrubbed, documents were destroyed, men were told to say nothing.

But one person didn't follow orders. The product of years of investigative reporting, interviews around the world, and the discovery of an astonishing array of classified information, Tiger Force is a masterpiece of journalism. Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for their Tiger Force reporting, Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss have uncovered the last great secret of the Vietnam War.

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"In the best tradition of investigative journalism, the authors let the story speak for itself." (Publishers Weekly)

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Reader does a great job covering the story and investigation in an intriguing manner. I heard about this war crime from my Captain's Career Course instructor and was disturbed to see just how bad the massacres were, and how terrible men can be when they are not held accountable for their actions.

Amazing story, well told

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I feel bad for the villagers and I feel bad for the troops. However I thought the story is well told and the narrator doe’s a good job

I don’t know

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could not stop listening. The reader was remarkable and extremely reliable with each new chapter.

unbelievable

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I was not surprised no one ever convicted. It is war kill kill kill. Look what they did to Americans there .

I just like the book.

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Well read with nice inflection betwixt the differing personalities. The ending is surprising but not at the same time.

interesting story-surprising end

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Incredible story of horrendous acts. And that's the thing about it, that there was so much of it. This story suffers from the abridgement which cuts out much of the story.

Wish this was available as Unabridged version.

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I was hoping for something a little more fact based about Tiger Force, but this book is interesting nonetheless. It is a story pieced together by interviews and accounts of many people like many war stories. Americans should know about things like this that happened in Vietnam to help them have a full perspective of the US influence on what was essentially a civil war.

Interesting Story About An Experimental Unit

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It’s a shocking heinous tale of leadership run amuck during combat. This is a raw narrative of misguided Army superiors causing PTSD to men in their charge. Troops received sustained exposure to unlawful orders resulting in random killing of Vietnamese civilians during the Vietnam War. Yes, murder in the jungles. I feel much compassion for these men carrying their burden post war. Bless you my Brothers!

Tiger Force by the Tail!

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In my opinion, this book is one that falls under the category of "if you weren't there, it's tough to judge exactly what went on". If what they say is all true, it's a terrible indictment of sanctioned US Forces in action. In the "Fog Of War" however, their charter was to "out VC the VC". Now, being ex-military from during the Vietnam era, I know exactly what that directive meant. The men that I knew and served with who went and did their duty were nothing like the men portrayed here so my perspective more than likely will be different from yours. The VC were relentless. Everything the book was able to document about the activities of Tiger Force was done in triplicate by the VC to the peasants in the South.

Hard On The Soul

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A raw description of the price of war. There are no winners, just casulties and the second you sign up - you have already lost.

Such an important book

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