Overview
āDeeply researched, well organized, and incredibly engagingĀ . . . This is our legacy with all the warts, the challenges, and the heroics in one concise volume.āāAdmiral William H. McRaven, #1 New York Times bestselling author andĀ former commander, United States Special Operations Command
How did the US Navyāthe branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceansāever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of the worldās most elite commando forces, routinely striking thousands of miles from the water on the battlefields of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, even Central Africa?
Behind the SEALsā improbable rise lies the most remarkable underdog story in American military historyāand in these pages, former Navy SEAL Benjamin H. Milligan captures it as never before.
Told through the eyes of remarkable leaders and racing from one longshot, hair-curling raid to the next, itās a tale of the unitās heroic naval predecessors, and the evolution of the SEALs themselves. But itās also the story of the forging of American special operations as a wholeāand how the SEALs emerged from the fires as Americaās first permanent commando force, when again and again some other unit seemed predestined to seize that role.
Here Milligan thrillingly captures the outsize feats of the SEALsā frogmen forefathers in World War II, the Korean War, and elsewhere, even as he plunges us into the second front of interservice rivalries and personal ambition that shaped the SEALsā evolution.
In equally vivid, masterful detail, he chronicles key early missions undertaken by units like the Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and Green Berets, showing us how these fateful, bloody moments helped create the modern American commandoāeven as they opened up pivotal opportunities for the Navy.
Finally, he takes us alongside as the SEALs at last seize the mantle of commando raiding, and discover the missions of capture/kill and counterterrorism that would define them for decades to come.
Written with the insight that can only come from a combat veteran and a member of the bookās tribe, By Water Beneath the Walls is an essential new history of the SEAL teams, a crackling account of desperate last stands and unforgettable characters accomplishing the impossibleāand a riveting epic of the dawn of American special operations.
This book title, By Water Beneath the Walls (The Rise of the Navy SEALs), ISBN: 9780553392197, by Benjamin H. Milligan, published by Random House Publishing Group (July 20, 2021) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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