Fighting Men by Jim Morris
THEY SHARED A WAR, A TRADITION, AND A DECADE. THESE ARE THEIR TRUE STORIES.Somewhere in the jungles of Vietnam, they became more than soldiers. They became...FIGHTING MEN.A Special Forces adventurer who became Korean Minister of Agriculture for a day...a mini D-Day that happened when a Green Beret met some Navy guys with a problem...an Operation codenamed Barroom designed to parachute four five-ton elephants deep in the Vietnamese jungle. In Morris's classic collection of Special Forces stories, we are given a vivid, sometimes humorous, and often terrifying, look at the culture of the elite warrior trained to fight outside the box, survive in hostile terrain, and kill the enemy before the enemy knows he's there. Profiling men who wanted to be the best, Morris leads us through night jumps and ambushes, from the day-to-day action of Green Berets fighting alongside indigenous Vietnamese to the onslaught that was the Tet Offensive. Along the way, the jungle comes alive, the smell of white phosphorous burns the nostrils, and the voices of brave and extraordinary men--some who lived and some who died--are etched in the mind forever...Jim Morris served three tours in Vietnam with the Special Forces (Green Berets). Serious wounds cut short the second and third. As a major, he retired due to wounds. He has maintained an interest in the Vietnamese mountain peoples with whom he battled, and has worked as a refugee and civil rights activist on their behalf for many years. The first Bernal Diaz Prize for military non-fiction was given to his Vietnam memoir War Stories.
Morris is the creator of the story that was adapted into the film Operation Dumbo Drop, as well as a producer of countless Vietnam War documentary television episodes. He is the author of three nonfiction books and five novels. He has been on MSNBC as a Special Operations commentator.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781944353520 |
| Title | Fighting Men |
| Author | Jim Morris |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Warriors Publishing Group |
| Year published | 2023-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 220 |
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