SOG The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
by Plaster, Major John
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1581606761
- ISBN 13
- 9781581606768
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About This Item
E-123: Paladin Press. Very Good. 2008. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Paladin Press, Boulder, CO. 2008. 376 pgs. Illustrated. Reprint. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. SOG was the most secret elite U. S. Military unit to serve in the war in Vietnam, so secret it was "black" - meaning its very existence was carefully concealed, even denied by the government. Innocuously code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG contained only volunteers from such units as the Army Green Berets, USAF Air Commandos and Navy SEALs, and answered directly to the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs, with some missions requiring approval from the White House. Inside Vietnam, only General William Westmoreland and a few senior non-SOG officers were briefed on SOG activities. Now Major John L. Plaster, a three-tour SOG veteran, vividly recounts the never-before-revealed exploits. SOG took on the most dangerous assignments, going behind enemy lines to penetrate North Vietnamese military facilities in Laos and Cambodia and along the heavily defended Ho Chi Minh Trail, where only air support - and sometimes no support at all - was available. As colorful as they were heroic, the men of SOG were bound together by their dedication. Though few in number, they were awarded ten Medals of Honor and hundreds of Purple Hearts. Their ranks included the war's most highly decorated unit, as well as the most highly decorated American soldier. Now their stories, among the most extraordinary to come out of the Vietnam War, can at at last be told. EB; 9.2 X 6.2 X 1.1 inches; 376 pages .
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- Last Exit Books (US)
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- Title
- SOG The Secret Wars of America's Commandos in Vietnam
- Author
- Plaster, Major John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1581606761
- ISBN 13
- 9781581606768
- Publisher
- Paladin Press
- Place of Publication
- E-123
- Date Published
- 2008
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- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....