Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper by Hans Halberstadt
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Book Reviews of Trigger Men: Shadow Team, Spider-Man, the Magnificent Bastards, and the American Combat Sniper
Book Review: Warriors
Summary: 3 Stars
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.Book Review: Best balance between war stories and interesting facts
Summary: 5 Stars
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. Book Review: Interesting topic, poor execution.
Summary: 2 Stars
I picked this book up after browsing the first chapter, and reading the reviews on the back, including a few from authors I know and respect. Unfortunately, I did not realize until I had bought it that the reviews were for a different book by the same author.
There was quite a bit of really compelling stuff in this book - but not enough to fill the pages. The book is repetitive, and there is some really bad editing at times. The author describes the same equipment and situations over and over again. It seemed haphazardly written, and poorly organized.
I would classify this as one of 'those' books on current events, where some corners were cut, and some filler put in to get it to press while most relevant.
Book Review: Outstanding
Summary: 4 Stars
This book highlight a new face of the sniper's job, and how they must deal with the new form of war. But, in the same time, the author show us how easily the sniper is able to adapt his behaviour and its tactics to the new type of war is facing every day in Irak.Book Review: Triggermen is MUST Reading for Professionals
Summary: 5 Stars
With his newest installment from an already well appreciated line of excellent books on various tactical aspects of military warfare, author Hans Halberstadt has again blessed military & police "operators" and the interested civilian readers with an outstanding text on the art of long and short range sniping. In my humble opinion, no one writing about military warfare and tactics has quite captured the essence of the psychological, physiological, technical and tactical aspects of "projecting force from afar" like Halberstadt since the late Carlos "White Feather" Hathcock, USMC wrote his military classic on snipers.
Make no mistake about it, "Triggermen" is not for those with a weak stomach. Author Halberstadt, through the stories of the snipers he interviewed for this book, allow the reader into the deep recesses of the military sniper's mind. For civilian readers, this book takes one on a unique journey where you begin to appreciate the mental and physical hardships associated with becoming a sniper on today's ever changing battlefield. From training, to target acquisition, to trigger compression, to terminal velocity; Hans Halberstadt transitions the reader from arm chair to prone position with eyes on the target. It just doesn't get any better than that!
"Triggermen" is MUST reading for all military and police operators; those seeking to be; and those who dream about what it would be like to defend this nation with a long gun and a scope. Five stars and a special salute to Hans Halberstadt!
Dr. Ron Martinelli
Criminologist/Law Enforcement Training Consultant
Technical Advisor, "Military & Law Enforcement Snipers"
The History & Discovery Channels
Martinelli & Associates: Justice Consultants, LLC
The Officer Safety Institute
Temecula, California
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