The Green Berets: The Amazing Story of the U. S. Army's Elite Special Forces Unit

About this book

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 expos 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 Moores 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.