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It is the highest award a grateful nation can bestow upon its fighting men. To earn it, a soldier requires more than courage, more than dedication--valor that far surpasses that of his brothers-in-arms. Twenty years after the first Navy UDT frogman fought and died at Peleiu and Normandy, a new breed of warrior has answered the call of an idealistic young Commander-in-Chief--going where no Americans have gone before, on missions no one else would dare. In a jungle was within a war, deep show more inside enemy territory, one unit--and one man--will write a glorious chapter in the proud SEALs history through unparalleled fortitude and terrible sacrifice--while learning the most brutal lesson of the hell called Vietnam: that the deadliest enemies of all might be those on their own side. It is the highest award a grateful nation can bestow upon its fighting men. To earn it, a soldier requires more than courage, more than dedication--valor that far surpasses that of his brothers-in-arms. Twenty years after the first Navy UDT frogman fought and died at Peleiu and Normandy, a new breed of warrior has answered the call of an idealistic young Commander-in-Chief--going where no Americans have gone before, on missions no one else would dare. In a jungle was within a war, deep inside enemy territory, one unit--and one man--will write a glorious chapter in the proud SEALs history through unparalleled fortitude and terrible sacrifice--while learning the most brutal lesson of the hell called Vietnam: that the deadliest enemies of all might be those on their own side. show lessTags
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William H. Keith Jr., William H. Keith Jr. has written over sixty novels dealing with the theme of war. Keith was in the Navy during the Vietnam war as a hospital corpsman, which gave him the personal experience with which to write his novels. Writting under the pseudonym 'H. Jay Riker,' Keith produced the "SEALS: The Warrior Breed" series, a show more family drama encompassing the history of Navy UDT and the SEALS from World War II to present say. Under the pseudonym 'Ian Douglas,' Keith wrote a military science fiction series which follows the course of U.S. Marines in the future show less
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