ERIC BLEHM is the bestselling author ofaFearlessaandaThe Only Thing Worth Dying For, which recounts the harrowing story of the first Special Forces A-team to infiltrate Taliban-held southern Afghanistan weeks after 9/11. Both books wereaNew York TimesaandaWall Street Journalabestsellers.aThe Last Season, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award, was named byaOutsideamagazine as one of the 10 "greatest adventure biographies ever written." Blehm lives in California with his wife and children.
"Roy Benavidez is a real badass, a modern day Spartan, the heart of
what every warrior prays for when everything goes wrong."
----MARCUS LUTTRELL, retired Navy SEAL and author of the #1 New
York Times bestseller Lone Survivor"I fought beside and led U.S.
Special Operations soldiers, sailors, and airmen during three
wars-- World War II, Korea, and Vietnam--including the men [of SOG]
depicted in Legend. Never have I read a more powerfully honest,
realistic, or moving account of the war in Southeast Asia. Eric
Blehm masterfully encapsulates the hearts of the men, their
impossible mission, and the quagmire of politics of the era and
wraps it up in a single bloody battle that portrays the American
fighting man at his best."
----MAJOR GENERAL JOHN K. (JACK) SINGLAUB, U.S. Army (Ret.)"Legend
may be the most important book ever written about the men of
Special Operations. It brings to life in touching and brutal detail
one of Special Operations Force's first true heroes as well as the
other heroic men who fought and died with him in the jungles of
Cambodia. Master Sergeant Roy Benavidez represented the best of the
quiet professionals whose incredible actions were long overlooked
and lost to history only to be rediscovered through Blehm's
painstaking research and magnificent writing."
----LIEUTENANT COLONEL JASON AMERINE, U.S. Army Special Forces
"[Legend] is one of the most honest and engrossing narratives of
the war I have ever read.... Blehm faithfully describes the
complicated choreography of war, and shows us why the Congressional
Medal of Honor was bestowed on Sergeant Benavidez for his actions.
A magnificent narrative, painstakingly told by a master
storyteller."
----MAJ. GEN. PAUL VALLELY
Roy Benavidez is a real badass, a modern day Spartan, the heart of
what every warrior praysfor when everything goes wrong. MARCUS
LUTTRELL, retired Navy SEAL and author of the #1 New York Times
bestseller Lone Survivor I fought beside and led U.S. Special
Operations soldiers, sailors, and airmen during three wars World
War II, Korea, and Vietnam including the men [of SOG] depicted in
Legend. Never have I read a more powerfully honest, realistic, or
moving account of the war in Southeast Asia. Eric Blehm masterfully
encapsulates the hearts of the men, their impossible mission, and
the quagmireof politics of the era and wraps it up in a single
bloody battle that portrays the American fighting man at his best.
MAJOR GENERAL JOHN K. (JACK) SINGLAUB, U.S. Army (Ret.) Legend may
be the most important book ever written about the men of Special
Operations. Itbrings to life in touching and brutal detail one of
Special Operations Force s first true heroesas well as the other
heroic men who fought and died with him in the jungles of Cambodia.
MasterSergeant Roy Benavidez represented the best of the quiet
professionals whose incredibleactions were long overlooked and lost
to history only to be rediscovered through Blehm spainstaking
research and magnificent writing. LIEUTENANT COLONEL JASON AMERINE,
U.S. Army Special Forces
"[Legend] is one of the most honest and engrossing narratives of
the war I have ever read . Blehm faithfully describes the
complicated choreography of war, and shows us why the Congressional
Medal of Honor was bestowed on Sergeant Benavidez for his actions.
A magnificent narrative, painstakingly told by a master
storyteller." -- Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely
05/25/2015
Blehm (Fearless) delivers an intense tale of how a poor, troubled
boy found salvation and purpose as a soldier in the story of Raul
"Roy" Benavidez (1935 1998), a Green Beret who saved "at least
eight men" during a vicious May 1968 firefight in Cambodia.
Incursions into Cambodia were so secret that the troops involved
were sworn never to divulge any information about them. . .
.Blehm's harrowing and bloody descriptions of the fighting reveal
how these missions depended on the paratroopers' mix of superior
skill and sheer audacity. Benavidez's incredible actions earned him
high accolades; years later, when news of his deeds spread
following publication a story in his Texas hometown newspaper, his
fellow soldiers pressed for Benavidez to receive his "long-overdue
and unfairly denied Congressional Medal of Honor." Blehm gives the
jungle hell of the Vietnam War a graphic, suspenseful treatment.
(May)
-- Publishers Weekly"
Roy Benavidez is a real badass, a modern day Spartan, the heart of
what every warrior praysfor when everything goes wrong. MARCUS
LUTTRELL, retired Navy SEAL and author of the #1 New York Times
bestseller "Lone Survivor" I fought beside and led U.S. Special
Operations soldiers, sailors, and airmen during three wars World
War II, Korea, and Vietnam including the men [of SOG] depicted in
Legend. Never have I read a more powerfully honest, realistic, or
moving account of the war in Southeast Asia. Eric Blehm masterfully
encapsulates the hearts of the men, their impossible mission, and
the quagmireof politics of the era and wraps it up in a single
bloody battle that portrays the American fighting man at his best.
MAJOR GENERAL JOHN K. (JACK) SINGLAUB, U.S. Army (Ret.) Legend may
be the most important book ever written about the men of Special
Operations. Itbrings to life in touching and brutal detail one of
Special Operations Force s first true heroesas well as the other
heroic men who fought and died with him in the jungles of Cambodia.
MasterSergeant Roy Benavidez represented the best of the quiet
professionals whose incredibleactions were long overlooked and lost
to history only to be rediscovered through Blehm spainstaking
research and magnificent writing. LIEUTENANT COLONEL JASON AMERINE,
U.S. Army Special Forces
"[Legend] is one of the most honest and engrossing narratives of
the war I have ever read . Blehm faithfully describes the
complicated choreography of war, and shows us why the Congressional
Medal of Honor was bestowed on Sergeant Benavidez for his actions.
A magnificent narrative, painstakingly told by a master
storyteller." -- Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely
05/25/2015
Blehm ("Fearless") delivers an intense tale of how a poor, troubled
boy found salvation and purpose as a soldier in the story of Raul
"Roy" Benavidez (1935 1998), a Green Beret who saved "at least
eight men" during a vicious May 1968 firefight in Cambodia.
Incursions into Cambodia were so secret that the troops involved
were sworn never to divulge any information about them. . .
.Blehm's harrowing and bloody descriptions of the fighting reveal
how these missions depended on the paratroopers' mix of superior
skill and sheer audacity. Benavidez's incredible actions earned him
high accolades; years later, when news of his deeds spread
following publication a story in his Texas hometown newspaper, his
fellow soldiers pressed for Benavidez to receive his "long-overdue
and unfairly denied Congressional Medal of Honor." Blehm gives the
jungle hell of the Vietnam War a graphic, suspenseful treatment.
(May)
-- Publishers Weekly"
"Roy Benavidez is a real badass, a modern day Spartan, the heart of
what every warrior prays for when everything goes wrong."
----MARCUS LUTTRELL, retired Navy SEAL and author of the #1 New
York Times bestseller "Lone Survivor""
""I fought beside and led U.S. Special Operations soldiers,
sailors, and airmen during three wars-- World War II, Korea, and
Vietnam--including the men [of SOG] depicted in Legend. Never have
I read a more powerfully honest, realistic, or moving account of
the war in Southeast Asia. Eric Blehm masterfully encapsulates the
hearts of the men, their impossible mission, and the quagmire of
politics of the era and wraps it up in a single bloody battle that
portrays the American fighting man at his best." ----MAJOR GENERAL
JOHN K. (JACK) SINGLAUB, U.S. Army (Ret.) "Legend may be the most
important book ever written about the men of Special Operations. It
brings to life in touching and brutal detail one of Special
Operations Force's first true heroes as well as the other heroic
men who fought and died with him in the jungles of Cambodia. Master
Sergeant Roy Benavidez represented the best of the quiet
professionals whose incredible actions were long overlooked and
lost to history only to be rediscovered through Blehm's painstaking
research and magnificent writing." ----LIEUTENANT COLONEL JASON
AMERINE, U.S. Army Special Forces
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