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Click to view full description | 1. | CLANCY, TOM Armored Cav: A Guided Tour of an Armored Cavalry Regiment
New York Berkley Books 1994 Soft Cover Very Good
Xxii, [2], 325 pages, illustrations, maps, pictorial wrappers, very good. includes: Descriptions of the M1A2 Main Battle Tank, the AH-64A Apache Attack Helicopter, and more; An interview with General Frederick Franks; Strategies behind the Desert Storm account; Exclusive photographs, illustrations and diagrams. From Booklist: "The second in Clancy's Guided Tour series about modern military hardware takes us ashore from last year's Submarine to the U.S. Army's armored cavalry regiments. These highly mobile units of 5,000 men and many hundreds of vehicles ranging from helicopters and tanks down to trucks are among the army's elite units, able to perform just about any operation of war short of an amphibious landing but specializing in reconnaissance. Clancy provides his usual thoroughly researched, clearly written, enthusiastic coverage of the machines, personnel, history, strategy and tactics, and training of his subject, and his help in making sense of the tossed salad of acronyms that fills many a techno-thriller besides his own is invaluable. The facts that armored cavalry faced and passed with flying colors a rigorous combat test in the Gulf War and is the focus of much research and development concerning its anticipated role in small wars and peacekeeping operations give the book added attraction for readers who chow down on the details of military hardware. Admirable, readable, informative, probably not the last of the series, and highly recommended."
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| 2. | CLANCY, TOM Executive orders.
New York G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1996 Hard Cover
872 pages, cloth, dj, very good. From the dj, 'The President is dead - and the weight, literally, of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary novel. . . DEBT OF HONOR ended with Tom Clancy's most chocking conclusion ever: a joint session of Congress destroyed, the President dead, most of the Cabinet and the Congress dead, the Supreme Court and Joint Chiefs likewise. Dazed and confused, the man who only minutes before had been confirmed as the new Vice-President of the United States is told that he is now President. President John Patrick Ryan... Tom Clancy has written remarkable novels before, but nothing comparable to the timeliness and drama of EXECUTIVE ORDERS. Filled with the exceptional realism and intricate plotting that are his hallmarks, it attests to the words of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 'This man can tell a story.'
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| 3. | CLANCY, TOM Marine : A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit
New York Berkley Books 1996 Soft Cover Very Good
xvi,336 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. From Library Journal: "In the tradition of novelist Clancy's previous nonfiction works, such as Fighter Wing (Berkley, 1995), comes an in-depth look at the United States Marine Corps (USMC). Clancy presents an insider's look at the most hallowed branch of the U.S. armed forces and those who serve on the front lines. First he offers an interview with Gen. Charles "Chuck" Cruller, 31st commandant of the Marine Corps. Clancy's main focus, however, is the Marine Expeditionary Unit-Special Operations Capable, or MEU (SOC). Currently, the USMC maintains seven MEU (SOC)s: three on each coast and one in Okinawa. Two or three of these units are deployed aboard ship into forward areas at any one time. These rapid-response units patrol a dangerous world while waiting for the president of the United States to get a "911" call for armed intervention. Clancy also offers a fascinating look at Marine Corps recruitment and training."
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| 4. | CLANCY, TOM Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
New York Berkley Books 1993 Soft Cover Very Good
Xx,328 pages, illustrations, pictorial wrappers, very good. From Kirkus Reviews: "Up periscope! with America's favorite armchair technowarrior, who here, with the cooperation of the Navy, takes readers deeper than they've ever gone inside a nuclear submarine. Clancy's fascination with underseas combat dates back at least as far as his debut novel, the sub-set The Hunt for Red October, and you can sense his pride and excitement as--after a brief but well-informed survey of the history of submarines and of a submariner's training- -he takes us aboard the USS Miami, an Improved Los Angeles-class boat berthed at the US Submarine Base in Groton, Connecticut. Those who share Clancy's almost erotic admiration for technology won't be disappointed by the tour: ``It is easy to tell that the Miami is equipped with the Mk 32 VLS system, since it is sitting level in the water,'' he tells us at once, adding that the ``33-foot- diameter hull is...approximately 3 inches thick and composed of HNY-80 high tensile steel.'' But fans of human-interest also will find that's engaging here, as the author notes, for example, that life aboard the Miami is akin to ``a combination of living in an oversized motor home and summer camp,'' with no privacy but much esprit de corps, where sleep deprivation is a major problem but dining is ``a pleasure,'' except for the preponderance of three- bean salad and the horrid-tasting orange ``bug juice''--which however, makes ``an excellent scouring powder for cleaning floors and heads.'' Clancy follows up his tour of the Miami with a briefer one of a British sub; a rundown of various submarine missions; and glances at other countries' submarines (Sweden, it turns out, has a formidable sub force). All in all: a fast-paced silent running that will please many of the author's fans--enough, perhaps, to allow a surfacing on the bestseller lists."
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