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Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper

by: Hans Halberstadt

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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443420922
EAN: 9780312354565
ISBN: 0312354568
Label: St. Martin's Press
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: March 18, 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Sales Rank: 61456
Studio: St. Martin's Press




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Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes readers deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before, from recruitment and training to the brutality of the killing fields. 



Shadow Team is probably the most productive sniper team in American military history, accounting for 276 confirmed kills in a six months span with no casualties of their own. Their leader made what was, and may still be, the longest range kill with a 7.62mm rifle. For the first time ever they explain what it's like to kill a man and what it takes to become one of the elite.



The tragic tale of Headhunter Two is altogether different. This four man sniper team from a regiment known within the Corps as the Magnificent Bastards was killed in 2004 in Ramadi, Iraq. Their deaths not only caused a reevaluation of sniper tactics and techniques, but created a desire for vengeance that was exacted nearly two years later in dramatic fashion.



Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews, Halberstadt gets inside the sniper mind and shows how they think and interact with each other, how missions are planned and executed, how the weapons work, and even what happens when a bullet finally strikes its target. There are only a few hundred snipers from all the services put together in combat at any one time, making this true inside story a rare and important event.



Both a uniquely intimate look at what makes a sniper tick and a harrowing read filled with dramatic war tales, Trigger Men is a book about killers and killing, without apology and without remorse.





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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The only thing you feel is the recoil !!!
Excellent book on what it was like to be a sniper in early Gulf War 2 and what our people in country ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Snipers don't like to lose.
The book is not a definitive work on sniping ( there's other texts for that) or even on sniping in the ... Read More



Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - A Good Read
A very good book of this type. Easy to read with good stats but not overwhelming details. Good story sources.



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good Balance of Stories vs. Background and Technical Details, needs more gore and terminal ballistics
I was looking for a book that had real-life stories of snipers in action, all from a fairly recent viewpoint (the ... Read More



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good read
I really enjoyed this book. The background and overall reveal of the sniper and their training was interesting, and ... Read More

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