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OverviewThe massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. U.S. military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the juggernaut they expected when and if a war began. The plan was Special Forces Berlin. Their mission should hostilities commence was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines, and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city. In reality it was an ambitious and extremely dangerous mission, even suicidal. Highly trained and fluent in German, each man was allocated a specific area. They were skilled in clandestine operations, sabotage, and intelligence tradecraft, and able to act as independent operators, blending into the local population and working unseen in a city awash with spies looking for information on their every move. Special Forces Berlin was a one of a kind unit that had no parallel. It left a legacy of a new type of soldier expert in unconventional warfare, one that was sought after for missions such as the attempted rescue of American hostages from Tehran in 1979. With the U.S. government officially acknowledging their existence in 2014, their incredible story can now be told. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James Stejskal , Timothy John CampbellPublisher: Tantor Media, Inc Imprint: Tantor Media, Inc Edition: Unabridged edition Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 13.70cm Weight: 0.079kg ISBN: 9781541408197ISBN 10: 1541408195 Publication Date: 04 July 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsReads like a thriller for much of the time - a small, select force ready for action should the Soviets escalate their activities in Western Europe - nothing much has changed in the last sixty years or so! ---Books Monthly Author InformationJames Stejskal is a military historian, conflict archaeologist, and the author of The Horns of the Beast: The Swakop River Campaign and World War I in South-West Africa, 1914-15. He currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Wanda. AudioFile Earphones Award winner Tim Campbell is a classically trained narrator, voice-over/stage actor, and opera singer based in Los Angeles. With over 160 titles to his credit, he narrates proficiently as both an American and a Brit, and does myriad accents and dialects from around the world. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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