The Degüello: The A-Team That Started a War

ISBN-10: 1977046452
ISBN-13: 9781977046451
Pages: 232
Language: English
Published: 2011-11
Author: Scott Zastrow

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Based on the incredible true storyWe simply call it 9/11 now. That day means something different to so many people, but for ten Green Berets, it means even more. Just days after the horrific attacks in New York, a handful of Green Berets from the decorated 5th Special Forces Group were secretly inserted deep behind enemy lines in Northern Afghanistan to set the stage for the upcoming War on Terror. Their mission was to seek out and kill as many Taliban and Al Qaida forces as they could find. Go inside the legend of one of Americas most elite units in this exciting and sometimes humorous account of their avenging the most horrific terrorist attack we have ever experienced.Written as a fictional story and firsthand account of the actual events that transpired for the first Special Forces A-Team into Afghanistan after 9/11, The Deguello pulls the reader into the actual Team. You get the feeling you are right there with them as they infiltrate Afghanistan, attack enemy forces, get ambushed, train the Northern Alliance and move on the capitol city of Kabul. You get a sense of the camaraderie and brotherhood of being on a Special Forces A-Team and how these men train and fight. Not written like a typical military historical book, this is a story based on the actual events that occurred to start the War on Terror. The reader is brought along from the very beginning and watches the entire story unfold before their eyes from the attacks of September 11th all the way through the dramatic and exciting conclusion of the assault on Kabul. "This book is for Joe," says the author, Scott A. Zastrow, a former Green Beret with more than 25-years in the Army. "With all the books out there by military historians written for the small group of intellectuals who enjoy them, Joe is kind of left out in the cold. He's bored by statistics, random facts of supposed historical significance, and overblown dramatics that they will easily call bullsh*t on. When reading the Deguello, Joe will say 'I can see that happening; I've done that; I've said that; I want to do that." When asked why this book is different than other historical military books about Afghanistan, Zastrow says, "It's not your typical hubristic story of 'look how cool I am'. It's a real story about real men doing what they get paid to do. A bunch of jackasses who are good at their jobs and who made the best of the situations they were put in. It just so happens these jackasses were called to do their jobs at a pretty significant time in American history, and they did it very well."Nothing we know of the War in Afghanistan would be possible had it not been for what these men did. Bagrahm Air Base is now the largest Coalition Base in Theater and was held by the enemy when this Team arrived. Read how it all began in this exciting, action packed and sometimes humorous account of one our Nation's most elite Special Operations units. They accomplished what no unit or larger force has ever done before........ or ever will again.(De-gwail-yo)Music played by the Mexican army bands on the morning of March 6th, 1836, was the signal for Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's attack on the Alamo. The word Deg�ello signifies the act of beheading or throatcutting and in Spanish history became associated with the battle music, which, in different versions, meant complete destruction of the enemy without mercy.

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