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Hunting Che

How A U.S. Special Forces Team Helped Capture the World's Most Famous Revolution Ary
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The hunt for Ernesto "Che" Guevera was one of the first successful U.S. Special Forces missions in history. Using government reports and documents, as well as eyewitness accounts, "Hunting Che" tells the untold story of how the infamous revolutionary was captured--a mission later duplicated in Afghanistan and Iraq. As one of the architects of the Cuban Revolution, Guevera had become famous for supporting and organizing similar insurgencies in Africa and Latin America. When he turned his attention to Bolivia in 1967, the Pentagon made a decision: Che had to be stopped. Major Ralph "Pappy" Shelton was called upon to lead the mission. Much was unknown about Che's force in Bolivia, and the stakes were high. With a handpicked team of Green Berets, Shelton turned Bolivian peasants into a trained fighting and intelligence-gathering force. "Hunting Che" follows Shelton's American team and the newly formed Bolivian Rangers through the hunt to Che's eventual capture and execution. With the White House and the Pentagon monitoring every move, Shelton and his team helped prevent another Communist threat from taking root in the West. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Author Biography:

Mitch Weissis a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist for the Associated Press. In 2003, he was assigned to a series that uncovered the longest string of atrocities carried out by a U.S. fighting unit in the Vietnam War. In recognition of the series "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths," which led to an investigation by the Pentagon, he was awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. A series he wrote about corrupt real estate appraisers won several national awards in 2009. He also was part of a team of AP reporters that won a George Polk Award in 2010 for their coverage of the British Petroleum oil-spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Kevin Maurer is the author and coauthor of several books, including "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden." Covering special operations forces for nearly a decade, he has been embedded with the U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan numerous times and spent ten weeks with a team of Green Berets in Afghanistan in 2010. He has been embedded with American soldiers in Iraq, East Africa, and Haiti.
Release date Australia
July 2nd, 2013
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
illustrations
Imprint
Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S.
Pages
320
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc
Dimensions
155x231x33
ISBN-13
9780425257463
Product ID
20894538

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