Publisher Description
“Captures the essence of Naval Special Warfare from our storied beginnings to the current fight.” —Admiral WILLIAM H. McRAVEN
Written with the unprecedented cooperation of the Naval Special Warfare community, this vivid and definitive history of the U.S. Navy SEALs reveals the inside story behind the greatest combat operations of America's most celebrated warriors. Illustrated with forty pages of photographs and based on exclusive interviews with more than 100 U.S. frogmen (including multiple Medal of Honor recipients), here is "the first comprehensive history of the special operations force" (Military.com).
New York Times bestselling authors Dick Couch—a former SEAL—and William Doyle chart the SEALs' story, from their origins in the daring Naval Combat Demolition Teams, Underwater Demolition Teams, Scouts and Raiders commando units, and OSS Operational Swimmers of World War II to their coming of age in Vietnam and rise to glory in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11.
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“Couch can tell a story.”
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New York Times, praise for the author
About the Authors
Dick Couch is a former Navy SEAL and CIA case officer, a combat veteran, and a New York Times bestselling author
with more than a dozen books to his credit. During the global war on terror, Couch
alone has been allowed to embed with the component commands of the US Special
Operations Command. He alone has tracked the SEALs, Green Berets, Rangers, and
Marine Special Operators as they train for war—and has written extensively about this
training. After eight books of
special-operations nonfiction, Act of
Revenge marks his return to fiction.
William Doyle is a New York Times bestselling author and the winner of the 1998 Writers Guild Award for Best Documentary for the A&E special, The Secret White House Tapes. He was also coproducer of the PBS special Navy SEALs: Their Untold Story. He lives in New York City.