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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 959
EAN num: 9780804116206
ISBN number: 0804116202
Label: Ballantine Books
Manufacturer: Ballantine Books
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 288
Printing Date: July 29, 1998
Publishing house: Ballantine Books
Release Date: July 29, 1998
Sale Popularity Level: 83852
Studio: Ballantine Books
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'The American sniper could be regarded as the greatest all-around rifleman the world has ever known. . . .'
At the start of the war in Vietnam, the United States had no snipers; by the end of the war, Marine and army precision marksmen had killed more than 10,000 NVA and VC soldiers--the equivalent of an entire division--at the cost of under 20,000 bullets, proving that long-range shooters still had a place in the battlefield. Now noted military historian Michael Lee Lanning shows how U.S. snipers in Vietnam--combining modern technology in weapons, ammunition, and telescopes--used the experience and traditions of centuries of expert shooters to perfect their craft.
To provide insight into the use of American snipers in Vietnam, Lanning interviewed men with combat trigger time, as well as their instructors, the founders of the Marine and U.S. Army sniper programs, and the generals to whom they reported. Backed by hard information and firsthand accounts, the author demonstrates how the skills these one-shot killers honed in the jungles of Vietnam provided an indelible legacy that helped save American lives in Grenada, the Gulf War, and Somalia and continues to this day with American troops in Bosnia.
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More a history of snipers than a account of specific Vietnam service.
Interesting history lesson and well documented.
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The style is good, content is overall comprehensive but the spice is missing.
if you read for the chase, forget this one, if you are one of those who want to straighten the facts over a glass, you got the right book else don't think about this one.
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I hated this book. The title reads Sniper in Vietnam. I think there was maybe 4 accounts of snipers in vietnam. The book goes back to like robin hood and talking about people being shot with arrows. Come on.....arrows. I bought a book about nam not some book on everything else. If you want a book about sniper history then this is the book for you. If not buy something else.
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Not a very exciting book. Lots of statistics and facts about the formation of sniping units. If that is what you are looking for then this is the book for you.
Ed Kugler's review is right on the money but I enjoyed Ed's book "Dead Center: A Marine Sniper's Two-Year Odyssey in the Vietnam War" much more. I respect both authors for their service to our country.
Thanks Guys!
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I found this book to be excellent from an historic standpoint of what is a sniper and what do they do. It is not one that has lots of war stories but it does document what snipers did and how they did it. If youre looking of for a bunch of war stories then this isnt it. If youre looking for details and research behind snipers ... then this is it
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