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	• Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper Hans Halberstadt St. Martin's Press, 2008 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Best balance between war stories and interesting facts

I have read many sniper books recently, but this last one seems to be the best among them in comparison. It's a very balanced mix of actual sniper stories from Iraq (even if they aren't necesserily connected in time or space), enough facts about training, ballistics, weapons, real life procedures, sniping history etc. Very entertaining, but also very educational for shooters who like to learn little tricks from professionals. Highly recommended.

Good read

I really enjoyed this book. The background and overall reveal of the sniper and their training was interesting, and the firsthand accounts really brought the book to life. I was in Iraq in '05 and could picture some of the roads and landmarks. Good read for shooting aficionados or those who like real stories of combat.

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Good book. I know and have worked with Shadow-four(Joker-Four) as part of TF Dark-Eagle. I'd suggest reading this book if you want to learn about the reality of small-team counterinsurgency.

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Good Balance of Stories vs. Background and Technical Details, needs more gore and terminal ballistics

I was looking for a book that had real-life stories of snipers in action, all from a fairly recent viewpoint (the war in Iraq and Afghanistan). This book fit the bill. While the author felt obligated to throw in the usual background info, how they are selected, how they train, ect., this was not as dull as I had expected, and in the parts about ballistics, weapons, and equipment, actually turned out to be fairly educational. It was amazing to read that the M-16 is actually considered a valid and highly effective sniper weapon now when used with a heavier barrel, decent sight, and 77 grain bullet that drops insurgents with the first shot (no more going straight through with no kill). The only drawbacks -- not nearly enough on Afghanistan, and despite the lengthy teaser about how the book was going to be gory, the kills themselves were fairly sugar-coated or censored. There was a little blurb on terminal ballistics, but not nearly enough, despite the intro that insinuated there would be. Still, great book, worth the money, and a fairly quick and educational read. This is the cutting edge on sniper ops in today's military in the war zone.

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Combat veteran and author Hans Halberstadt takes readers deeper inside the elusive world of snipers than ever before, from recruitment and training to the brutality of the killing fields.

Shadow Team is probably the most productive sniper team in American military history, accounting for 276 confirmed kills in a six months span with no casualties of their own. Their leader made what was, and may still be, the longest range kill with a 7.62mm rifle. For the first time ever they explain what it's like to kill a man and what it takes to become one of the elite.

The tragic tale of Headhunter Two is altogether different. This four man sniper team from a regiment known within the Corps as the Magnificent Bastards was killed in 2004 in Ramadi, Iraq. Their deaths not only caused a reevaluation of sniper tactics and techniques, but created a desire for vengeance that was exacted nearly two years later in dramatic fashion.

Based on hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews, Halberstadt gets inside the sniper mind and shows how they think and interact with each other, how missions are planned and executed, how the weapons work, and even what happens when a bullet finally strikes its target. There are only a few hundred snipers from all the services put together in combat at any one time, making this true inside story a rare and important event.

Both a uniquely intimate look at what makes a sniper tick and a harrowing read filled with dramatic war tales, Trigger Men is a book about killers and killing, without apology and without remorse.

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