Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War (Hardcover)

BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting, "Tiger Force" is an engrossing, riveting account of how war atrocities repeate themselves -- from Vietnam to Iraq.

Two reporters for the Toledo Blade, a smaller city paper that outshines the more well-known mainstream press on a regular basis, uncovered the horrifying history of an elite Vietnam military unit that degenerated into what Joseph Conrad would call "the heart of darkness."

Little Brown and Company, the Publisher of "Tiger Force" notes: "At the outset of the Vietnam War, the Army created an experimental fighting unit that became known as 'Tiger Force.' The Tigers were to be made up of the cream of the crop-the very best and bravest soldiers the American military could offer. They would be given a long leash, allowed to operate in the field with less supervision. Their mission was to seek out enemy compounds and hiding places so that bombing runs could be accurately targeted. They were to go where no troops had gone, to become one with the jungle, to leave themselves behind and get deep inside the enemy's mind.