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FREE INSIDE DELTA FORCE: THE STORY OF AMERICAS ELITE COUNTERTERRORIST UNIT PDF Eric L Haney | 352 pages | 15 May 2009 | Random House USA Inc | 9780385339360 | English | New York, United States Inside Delta Force - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. They are the U. Army's most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won't hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions, and no book has ever taken Inside Delta Force: The Story of Americas Elite Counterterrorist Unit inside—until now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force Inside Delta Force: The Story of Americas Elite Counterterrorist Unit us behind the veil of secrecy and into the action-to reveal the never-before-told story of 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-D Delta Force. Inside Delta Forece The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit He is a master of espionage, trained to take on hijackers, terrorists, hostage takers, and enemy armies. He can deploy by parachute or arrive by commercial aircraft. Survive alone in hostile cities. Speak foreign languages fluently. Strike at enemy targets with stunning swiftness and extraordinary teamwork. He is the ultimate modern warrior: the Delta Force Operator. In this dramatic behind-the-scenes chronicle, Eric Haney, one of the founding members of Delta Force, takes us inside this legendary counterterrorist unit. Here, for the first time, are details of the grueling selection process—designed to break the strongest of men—that singles out the best Inside Delta Force: The Story of Americas Elite Counterterrorist Unit the best: the Delta Force Operator. With heart-stopping immediacy, Haney tells what it's really like to enter a hostage-held airplane. And from his days in Beirut, Haney tells an unforgettable tale of bodyguards and bombs, of a day-to-day life of madness and beauty, and of how he and a teammate are called on to kill two gunmen targeting U. Marines at the Beirut airport. As part of the team sent to rescue American hostages in Tehran, Haney offers a first-person description of that failed mission that is a chilling, compelling account of a bold maneuver undone by chance—and a few fatal mistakes. From fighting guerrilla warfare in Honduras to rescuing missionaries in Sudan and leading the Inside Delta Force: The Story of Americas Elite Counterterrorist Unit onto the island of Grenada, Eric Haney captures the daring and discipline that distinguish the men of Delta Force. Inside Delta Force brings honor to these singular men while it puts us in the middle of action that is sudden, frightening, and nonstop around the world. From the Hardcover edition. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published August 30th by Delta first published May 14th More Details Original Title. United States of America. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Inside Delta Forceplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Aug 30, Jena rated it it was amazing Shelves: military5-starsbiographyhistorynonfiction. It humbles me to tears, that while most Americans attend movies, shop for new cars, sleep, and have barbecues in the backyard, there is a group of men and women who voluntarily spend time away from family, endure brutal tests of physical and mental endurance, risk injury, and even sacrifice their own lives, so that we can continue on in blissful ignorance of the dangers we face. This is the story of a small, Inside Delta Force: The Story of Americas Elite Counterterrorist Unit, military force whose goal is to defeat terrorism, anywhere in the world. I had no idea there was even such a thing as a forty-mile-march while carrying a fifty-pound pack. I had no idea you could shoot a gun until blisters and then calluses formed on your thumbs. I had no idea you could get shot, and continue to fire a weapon and complete your mission. I had no idea about a lot of things that are involved in our country's safety, and maybe that should be counted as one of the missions accomplished for our country's protectors, that I, as a civilian, remain mostly aware of the dangers, and the sacrifices my protectors make to keep me that way. God bless our military! View all 3 comments. May 26, Edward rated it it was amazing. This is quite simply the greatest SpecOps book written and probably the greatest autobiography of a soldier written on top of that. Eric Haney's humanity is the key. The operations and experiences are just utterly visceral and you'll find yourself frozen, jaw slightly open, while reading them. But it's Haney's own internal commentary that lifts the book from being a series of intense action pieces to Inside Delta Force: The Story of Americas Elite Counterterrorist Unit greater. When Haney writes about cradling the head of a Cuban-trained guerilla leader This is quite simply the greatest SpecOps book written and probably the greatest autobiography of a soldier written on top of that. When Haney writes about cradling the head of a Cuban-trained guerilla leader he just shot and killed and reflects on the waste of war, the bravery of the man in his arms and how that moment erases all differences among men As with Chuck Pfarrer, Haney is a thinking man's warrior - philosophical yet possessing truckloads of the intestinal fortitude necessary for doing the things these men are tasked with doing. He is at once measured, reflective, almost stoic, and exuding honesty. Carnal episodes are absent. You won't find the acronym "LBFM" in this book. What you will find is an unflinching, honest account of incredible things witnessed by an incredibly measured man. I first came to know Delta Force though Mark Bowden's classic "Blackhawk Down" and I was as impressed as everyone else with the cool professionalism of the men. Haney's book, like Delta-founder Charlie Beckwith's own "Delta Force," begins with the formation of the unit. Unlike Beckwith's book though, which is understandably focused on Pentagon turf battles and paperwork, you are dropped right in to the selection process along with Haney, sharing his incredulousness at the lack of "spit and polish, snap to and salute" military pomp in the group the same incredulousness, I should add, that Beckwith felt when he first observed the SAS, Delta's template. You watch along with Haney as candidates drop like flies, some even comically, others through injuries, most from just saying "enough is enough" and quitting. For me one of the most fascinating parts of the book is the operations in Central and South America Grenada, Honduras. This is a part of American military history that is, at least to me, very fuzzy. Reagan blitzed any and every foothold Castro attempted to make there but because of the scale, it was a battle tailor-made for special operations forces. There is a hair-raising ride in a Blackhawk convoy Inside Delta Force: The Story of Americas Elite Counterterrorist Unit gets fired upon in a pre-dawn raid that is one of the many jaw-droppers in the book. Haney masterfully describes the psychological processes at work when you're in the air and streams of tracers are ripping into the helicopter and there's nowhere to go except inward. The accounts of the men in these situations leaves you just speechless as you watch along with Haney as a Delta Commando takes a scalpel to himself to fish a bullet out of his leg while humming a tune. Another's foot hangs by a tiny piece of flesh as it was hit with a large piece of ammunition as they ran the machine gun gauntlet in the Blackhawks. But they are alive and you feel, as surely Haney did, that you are alive too. Beirut is another of the highlights for me. Unlike the covert ground battles in South America though, Beirut was insidiously deadly by being mundane at the same time. Without warning, a shell could land from far away on the street you were walking down. There are few things I have ever read with more power than Haney's vignettes about the brutal day-to-day reality of living in Beirut, like a father who accidentally shoots his son while firing an AK joyously into the air during his son's wedding common practice in the Middle East who then shoots himself. Or boys playing with hand grenades by tossing them into the water, only to accidentally have one boy jump in the water too close to one explosion and be killed. The Middle East has never been portrayed so brutally yet so real and underneath Haney's stoicism you can see a great pity and deep pathos. Haney was tasked with keeping our ambassador alive and left after three tours shortly before the entire embassy was leveled with a truck bomb. He was also at Desert One and inside the plane that was struck by an errant helicopter. You will be in awe of what the man lived through and forever thankful to him for putting these searing experiences into print and doing so with great humanity and an unflinching eye.