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Summary: Hunting Down Sadaam does not deliver
Review: It's hard to imagine a book being flowery and dry at the same time, but Hunting Down Saddam is just that. Missing are first hand accounts, details, personal stories, anything that could liven the text and make interesting events, interesting; instead we get lines like, "The SF medics dressed wounds, water was chugged, and faces were stuffed. All this fighting burned calories!" Yep, that's about as detailed and interesting as this book gets. Honestly, I think anyone with an enthusiast knowledge of Special Operations, who watched CNN, could crank out propaganda superior to Hunting Down Saddam. Robin Moore takes us for a ride, but it's not to war.
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Summary: Cheap propaganda under a deceptive title
Review: Mr. Moore writes a solid account of events that led up to the capture of Saddam. Robin the author of the Green Berets, the French Connection to name a few and Well respected amoungst Green Berets. Robin Moore successfully completed the Special Forces Course before going to Vietnam.........the only civilian to ever do that. And with his condition (Parkinson) he still went to Iraq to get the real story from soldiers who were part of the capture. You gotta love and respect this man! Unlike some wanna be's that pretend to have attended the course, and fought in battle, i think you know who you are, shame on you. I must say for you ji to take a shot at Robin and the man who wrote the forward is brave, I've known both Robin and MV for a longtime, and was with MV in 90-91 when we he fired shots in anger, I ought to know, i was with him........
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Summary: More to Follow
Review: Mr. Moore writes a solid account of events that led up to the capture of Saddam. Robin the author of the Green Berets, the French Connection to name a few and Well respected amoungst Green Berets. Robin Moore successfully completed the Special Forces Course before going to Vietnam.........the only civilian to ever do that. And with his condition (Parkinson) he still went to Iraq to get the real story from soldiers who were part of the capture. You gotta love and respect this man! Unlike some wanna be's that pretend to have attended the course, and fought in battle, i think you know who you are, shame on you. I must say for you ji to take a shot at Robin and the man who wrote the forward is brave, I've known both Robin and MV for a longtime, and was with MV in 90-91 when we he fired shots in anger, I ought to know, i was with him........
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Summary: Cheap propaganda under a deceptive title
Review: Probably the worst book I have ever read.... A childish and propagandistic book of the worst literature, badly structured and poorly written. The title is the most disappointing, misleading and deceptive. I bought this book to know more about "the inside story of the search and capture of Saddam". The title (Hunting Down Saddam) led me to believe the book would concentrate on the concrete efforts to capture Saddam. However, the first reference to "the hunt for Saddam" is made after 209 extremely boring pages and the only chapter that actually focuses on Saddam's capture is the last one: from page 227 to 257. Besides the last chapter, which barely adds insight to the widely available journalistic information on the capture of Saddam, the rest of the book is a ridiculous attempt at glorifying the efforts of American soldiers. By childishly venerating the good American boys without analyzing the contradictions of war, this kind of literature only helps discrediting the work of good American soldiers. One last question: What does the author exactly mean in page 248 when he refers to "the interrogators turned up the heat and at 1700 hours, the source cracked"? Cheap propaganda under a deceptive title. Don't buy it.
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Summary: Classic Non-Fiction on Operation Iraqi Freedom
Review: Robin Moore does it again, and documents firsthand experiences from soldiers involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom. This book is a first-rate non-fiction read that is destined to become a textbook and reference of lessons learned for future conflicts. From the classic Unconventional Warfare Missions of Special Forces as they destroy one of the largest terrorist camps and terrorist organizations in Northern Iraq, to the 101st (AA) light infantry division as they ride into battle with an embedded reporter and their raid on the hideout of Uday and Qusay, and finally to the tactical operations of the 4th ID, a US heavy division operating around Tikrit and their collaboration with the Special Operators of Task Force 121 and later combined operations in the capturing of Saddam. This book is highly recommended by experienced war experts, veterans, veterans of Special Forces, and is receiving unprecedented positive reviews by the news media, such as Imus, FOX, CNN, MSNBC, NY cable stations, and National Radio Shows; a must read for those that want an insight of the war in Iraq.
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Summary: Classic Non-Fiction on Operation Iraqi Freedom
Review: Robin Moore does it again, and documents firsthand experiences from soldiers involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom. This book is a first-rate non-fiction read that is destined to become a textbook and reference of lessons learned for future conflicts. From the classic Unconventional Warfare Missions of Special Forces as they destroy one of the largest terrorist camps and terrorist organizations in Northern Iraq, to the 101st (AA) light infantry division as they ride into battle with an embedded reporter and their raid on the hideout of Uday and Qusay, and finally to the tactical operations of the 4th ID, a US heavy division operating around Tikrit and their collaboration with the Special Operators of Task Force 121 and later combined operations in the capturing of Saddam. This book is highly recommended by experienced war experts, veterans, veterans of Special Forces, and is receiving unprecedented positive reviews by the news media, such as Imus, FOX, CNN, MSNBC, NY cable stations, and National Radio Shows; a must read for those that want an insight of the war in Iraq.
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Summary: Extremely Misleading and Terribly Disappointing
Review: There are numerous problems with this book, too many to list, but the first of which it is not about Special Forces, it is about the 4th Infantry Division and the 101st Airborne. There are basically no first hand Special Forces accounts. I bought the book because I LOVED The Hunt For Bin Laden-Task Force Dagger. It is fairly obvious a different person wrote this, no battle scenes, no dialogue, little action, just letters home and plodding recounting of news stories that aired on Fox News. In fact, it is a great ad for Fox News, and if you believe, they did everything great that ever happened in the war. It is jam-packed with pictures, 32 pages of them. The problem is that they are all off US Army websites and from the public affair's office-- released to everyone. Even the shoulder patches show that all the soldiers are mostly from the 4th Infantry Division. I bought it to read about the Green Berets, I got a story about dinners with Fox News, and letters home. Basically, it is crap, a real disappointment from a fan of the Green Berets, the French Connection, and the Hunt for Bin Laden. Noticeably absent are any mistakes by anyone, obviously pandering to good will instead of truth. The previous book abou the war in Afghanistan may have been a little too flag waving (if you can ever be in times of war), but it did recount all the mistakes, lessons learned, and screw-ups of the Green Berets along with their great successes and incredible heroism. Whre is the CIA, the DIA, the SEALs, the "inside scoop?" Where are the guys like MSG Davidson, Peitory, Proser, Bolduc, Chapman, and Harriman, who were America's great heroes, who fought, bled, and sometimes died for their country? Whre are the characters like Hal who made me laugh, and Jack who I heard on Imus. They are not in this book. But Fox News certainly is. I read the Hunt For Bin Laden in one long night, I read it two more times last summer, and read the paperback (even better) during the Christmas holidays. Forcing myself to reading Moore's Saddam book was painful and hard... and boring. My advice? Wait for a real Special Forces book, written by real Special Forces soldiers.
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Summary: Hunting Down Sadaam does not deliver
Review: This book only rates opening for some coverage of Special Forces operations in the northern Iraq that have not yet been extensively covered. Otherwise, it is a poor effort. The writing style is amateurish. There are frequent glaring avoidable errors in military nomenclature(e.g. the non-existent Army rank of "Captain Sergeant-Major"). The long section entitled "Letters from Tikrit" is dull as can be, written in an awkward style by an Army Lt. Col. who seems unable to express himself in anything but cliches and military jargon. The book does little to give the reader the feel of the action described. The descriptions all seem fourth-hand and as if written by someone far away from the scene long after the event. The book seems little organized. It does not seem to have direction, but rather it seems to be some disparate collection of pieces written by different people at different times and crudely tacked together to get something into the book stores. A quick glance at Robin Moore's previous book "the Hunt for Bin Laden" will reveal the stunning decline in workmanship that his book represents.
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Summary: Hunting who? Saddam and his sons.
Review: This is a good book but it has several small flaws. First of all the title is slightyl misleeding. This book is more then just the hunt for 'the bearded menace' Saddam. This book is really a chonicle of intelligence gathering prior to the war and then the subsequent hunt to catch Saddams circle. This circle included Saddams sons and in fact the greatest acheivemetn of the American forces was killing his barborous children. THe reality is that Saddam was not found as much by american expertise but rather by local lip wagging. So this books title is slightly misleeding but the story is a must read. Mostly this book explains that the Iraq war was in many ways a personal war, waged against one man and his inner circle, unlike most wars in the past which have been waged against entire nations. One item not explained in this text is why Saddam Hussein was found which a giant canned ham just ten feet away. In a country like post-war Iraq it must have ben hard to find canned ham. So where did Saddam find such an item? A true perplexing mystery, but nevertheless this is a wonderful quick, action-packed read. Seth J. Frantzman
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Summary: An outstanding book!
Review: This, to me, is probably one of the best books that I have read. Me being not interested in many books was amazed by how it was written and about what all has been going on during the war. I would definatly recommend this book for people that are also, like me, interested in books like this one. It was outstanding the way it described what was going on. Told more facts then you would usually see in the news. And as I read it, it felt like I was there first hand.
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