Sniper

American Single-Shot Warriors In Iraq And Afghanistan

von Gina Cavallaro, Matt Larsen

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From Afghanistan’s Hindu Kush peaks and sunbaked Helmand Valley to Baghdad, Mosul, and Ramadi in Iraq, American snipers have braved heart-pounding situations to hit their human targets dead-on. Few military feats stir the imagination like the image of a pair of riflemen waiting quietly in a building, a bomb crater, or a mountain pass for a Taliban or Al Qaeda fighter to walk into their crosshairs.Sniper presents real-life tales from the military’s frontline snipers—their hits and their misses, the anguish of loss, and the anxiety of the first kill. Authors Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen provide riveting accounts of American soldiers and marines on the battlefield, and take a rare look at how Rangers and Special Forces snipers train and operate, and how the war on terror has changed the role of military snipers.

• Reihe: Lyons Press
• ISBN: 9781599218557
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2010
• Größe: 231 x 153 mm
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc