Special Forces: War Against Terrorism in Afghanistan [Hardcover]

Eric Micheletti (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003

Eric Micheletti, well known editor of Raids Magazine in France is an internationally respected special Forces expert. In this spectacular new book he gives a day by day objective and highly documented explanation of the use of American, British, French and Australian speciual forces in the current campaign in Afghanistan.

Accompanied be numerous color illustrations, the book covers the operations, equipment, uniforms and armament of these elite troops.

This book is an absolute must for anyone interested in todays leading special forces units.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 144 pages
• Publisher: Histoire and Collections (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 2913903908
• ISBN-13: 978-2913903906
• Product Dimensions: 12.4 x 9.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,301,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Riddled with errors, October 19, 2003

By 

J. Chang "eva05" (Milltown, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Special Forces: War Against Terrorism in Afghanistan (Hardcover)

Well in addition to getting most of the operational details incorrect in this book many of the photos (of the US SOF at least) seem to be randomly attributed to different units operating on the line. His section on Delta Force and DEVGRU are so inaccurate it's like reading fiction. My personal fav is a picture of US Army Special Forces with a caption that says SAS. How do I know those guys aren't SAS? You can find the pcitures on the DOD website!

What's more, Micheletti has chosen not to block out the faces of the soldiers on most pages of this book. So whoever buys this book gets a good look at active duty men working in the field who can now be identified by their enemies and put in danger of retribution. This puts these men and their families in danger. Any operator will tell you this is just wrong.

Almost every image in this book can be found online at http://www.militaryphotos.net and in most cases, with the faces obscured.

Do not support this book. Do not buy this book. It is a comedy of technical errors in addition to being a threat to the men who do this work for real.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not for the specialists, December 23, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Special Forces: War Against Terrorism in Afghanistan (Hardcover)

A coffee-table book packed with pictures. If you are looking for highly specialized infos, give it a miss. If you want loads of pictures (including reconstructions) and some background infos, go for it.

The original text was obviously in French and the translation is not always 100% but it remains readable.

Good infos on non-US units and interesting pictures taken by the in-house "RAIDS" reporter, Yves Debay.

18 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor translation and innacurate details, December 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Special Forces: War Against Terrorism in Afghanistan (Hardcover)

1. The book appears to have been tranlated from French to English very poorly. I estimate 80% of the sentences have obvious grammatical errors and/or mispellings.
2. Many of the detailed facts specifically in the timeline section are innacurate.
3. I intended to use the book for research on Spec Ops role for an Afghanistan Campaign analysis. I didn't use anything from this book because it lacked factual credibility.