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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War

Written by Michael Sallah and Mitch Weiss

Narrated by Harry Chase

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

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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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Release dateMay 15, 2006
ISBN9781594835162
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Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    A Reality Check that that everyone that remembers that period of time should listen too!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Wow, I thought My Lai was bad. I knew soldiers on both sides of the Vietnam war went crazy, but I had no clue to what extent.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent work. Very well read. What a shame that this hugely dark piece of our history was shoved under the rug never to see the light of day.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Tiger Force was disappointing to me. Billed as a group of high-speed special operators, the Tigers were in reality, I came to understand very early in the book, merely a regular leg infantry scout platoon. Every battalion's got one. That set the book out on the wrong foot because from the dust jacket to the first chapter, you realize the authors have churched it up for the sake of sensationalism.The book was well researched and written, though, and an interesting story.In all, I think the authors put too much focus on portraying the atrocities committed as the result of psychotic soldiers run amok without supervision and just mentioned in passing the institutional and higher level leaders who set the conditions in which this type of horror can take place.Let's not forget the Stanford Prison Experiment, or the Milgram Obedience Experiment, which makes quite clear that good, well-meaning, and average people will do unconscionable things if the environmental conditions are set in ways that foster those behaviors.So this is a decent read, but it is an expose--it is investigative journalism doing the work of investigative journalism, NOT the work of war narrative or of military history. Tiger Force was too sensationalized for me.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was difficult to put down. I can't add much more than the other reviewers have written. I did question some of the "thoughts" that are put in the heads of men who were dead before the book was written. I felt that detracted from the authenticity of the work. However, the cover ups that took place after the initial investigation and after the most recent one are not surprising but are disturbing. Don't the leaders get it? Practices will not change for the better if mistakes of the past are not recognized.As for winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people, this volume is full of more information why that could never happen and I will not be surprised if I read books in a few years telling the same troubling occurrences taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq. Oops! Those stories are already in the press.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Expertly written and impeccably sourced. The authors are likely deserving of their Pulitzer, even if only for remembering to make history readable and accessible, humanizing the key players without passing judgment. Raises a thousand questions that undoubtedly nobody wants answered. Just the most obvious: to what extent is command culpable for the actions? Where does the admittedly great responsibility of the ground troops end? Why were the incidents swept under the rug in the name of "closure"? And had these revelations come out contemporaneously, would we still be witnessing abuses in our current military situations?
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This was an interesting book my wife bought me for Father's Day. There was obviously a lot of research done in putting the book together.