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Title: Special Forces in Afghanistan 2001-2003: War Against Terrorism by Eric Micheletti ISBN: 2-913903-90-8 Publisher: Histoire & Collections Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $37.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Not for the specialists
Comment: A coffee-table book packed with pictures. If you are looking for highly specialized infos, give it a miss. If you want loads of pictures (including reconstructions) and some background infos, go for it.

The original text was obviously in French and the translation is not always 100% but it remains readable.

Good infos on non-US units and interesting pictures taken by the in-house "RAIDS" reporter, Yves Debay.

Rating: 1
Summary: Poor translation and innacurate details
Comment: 1. The book appears to have been tranlated from French to English very poorly. I estimate 80% of the sentences have obvious grammatical errors and/or mispellings.
2. Many of the detailed facts specifically in the timeline section are innacurate.
3. I intended to use the book for research on Spec Ops role for an Afghanistan Campaign analysis. I didn't use anything from this book because it lacked factual credibility.

Rating: 5
Summary: Australia mentioned at last
Comment: At last a book that mentions the Australian involvement in the recent wars in the Afghanistan and Iraq.
SF: War Against Terrorism not only mentions the Australian SASR, 4RAR (Cdo) and loggies, it also features plenty of high-quality pictures snapped by Australian Army PR photographers.
The book covers each country who provided troops, and gives detailed pics of their kit and uniforms - and action pics. It's a delight for military train-spotters and not bad reference material.
I can't speak for the US facts - but surely the facts used would have been obtained via official channels.
As for facial obscurity - if your photographers take full-face shots and your department allows them to be released - and they're in the public arena, you can hardly blame the author.
Nice work Mr Micheletti, look forward to the next book.

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