Bronze Star

Seals: The Warrior Breed #3

by H. Jay Riker

When Duty Calls The face of war is rapidly changing, calling America's soldiers into hellish regions where conventional warriors dare not go. From the Mekong to the U-Minh forest, this is the world of the SEALs -- an unparallelled fighting force trained in every aspect of survival, infiltration and silent death, rising like a Pheonix from the glorius flames of the Navy's crack Underwater Demolition Team. But Vietnam is a virulent new strain of jungle conflict -- where enemy and ally can be the same . . . where lives and lies are merely disposable pieces in unscrupulous political games. Yet the SEALs know that this is a war that can be won -- if they are allowed to fight it "their" way.

Genres: Military Fiction, War

496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

A pseudonym used by William H. Keith Jr..

Reviews

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A powerful story about the Vietnam war, and a family with three Navy Seal heroes!

[Robert · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah. If only we would not understand and kill the

I've found, and books like Corporate Confidential remind me, that innovative, possible, enthusiastic and effective performance is often killed from within the ranks. The real people make the bureaucracy look bad, and the bureaucracy will sacrifice anything including the objective to protect itself.

This book is a not-too-far-off-truth example of how we Americans beat ourselves in Vietnam, how it takes some real ratbastards doing some ugly things elsewhere in life to keep the goal in mind and stick it to the bad guy.

None of us are getting any younger including me, so I love it too that the "old guy" turns out to be one of the best warriors, a true leader, it's not all about numbers.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

My father was one of the Scouts and Raiders, the UDT's that were the early beginnings of what we call the Seals. Little has been written about what the Scouts and Raiders did in WWII. This book is one of a series that is a fictionalized account of the UDTS' s and later on the Seals. In this book specifically those that did duty in Vietnam.