Richard Marcinko full name Richard “Dick” Marcinko is an ex US Naval officer. He is famously the first commanding officer of Red Cell and SEAL Team Six, veteran of the Vietnam War, and NAVY SEAL commander. After serving many years in the US Navy he retired to become a motivational speaker, military consultant, radio talk show host and author. Richard Marcinko is best known for the long running Rogue Warrior series of novels that he has been writing since 1992. The first novel of the series was Rogue Warrior which proved so popular that he followed it up with nearly twenty more titles in the still ongoing series. BEST RICHARD MARCINKO BOOKS: Richard Marcinko writes dome of the most appreciated war fiction novels. Some of his most popular novels include: Rogue Warrior: One of the best novels of the Rogue Warrior series of novels through which Richard Marcinko made his name. The novel is …show more content…
The Rogue Warrior has written a new set of rules to guide him in the dark world of special ops. When the times get dangerous, there are only one kind of people to call upon – dangerous men. The most dangerous man in the world is Captain Richard Marcinko aka the Rogue Warrior. The tiny nation of Azerbaijan that is under the Russian sphere of influence has recently been the target of destabilization and Marcinko needs to find out who is responsible. The small nation has an abundance of oil riches that it intends to pipe to the West through a pipeline and both Iran and Russia seem to be interested in controlling the nation. But there are undercover players that include the likes of Steve Sarkesian an Armenian billionaire with shadowy ties to Iranian and Russian politicians. Taking his elite team of SEALs to Azerbaijan, Marcinko intends to crack heads and break rules if necessary to ensure justice for the people of Azerbaijan and American
Bertrand Russell once said, “War doesn’t determine who’s right, only who’s left.” The Vietnam War was one in particular where soldiers often struggled with who the enemy was. War is too often thought of as something to be won, but this novel reveals it is simply something to be survived, and the shell of a person that is left will not be the same one that walked into battle. That is a jarring reality very prominent in Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. It is a lesson soldier Richard Perry learns all too well on his journey from innocent young boy to Vietnam veteran.
In Vietnam Book One: Sharpshooter by Chris Lynch, Ivan, a teenager, joins the army to become a sniper. To begin with, Ivan has a friend named Rudi, and he gets drafted for the Vietnam War. Soon, Ivan decides he will volunteer to become a marksman. As expected, he gets put into a group of others that are training to be snipers. He gradually learns that being a sniper can be hard.
I Am A Seal Team Six Warrior The Navy is not made for everyone. The book I AM A SEAL TEAM SIX WARRIOR by Howard E. Wasdin and Stephen Templin, explains why the Navy is not built for everyone. This book explains how Howard goes through multiple training courses to become the best of the best.
Introduction Understanding the past through looking at the case study on the Entombed Warriors of Xian it is determined that the past is influential in modern day activities. The uncovering of one the major tourist attractions in china was by complete mistake. It was uncovered by a farmer who was building a well in 1974 and later oped as a tourist attraction in 1979. It’s known to be apart of the Qin Empire’s era and he was later buried there.
I chose the book Black Hearts by Jim Frederick because it was recommended to me by First Lieutenant Smaldone. He had to read it as course material during his training at TBS (The Basic School). Officers go to TBS following Officer Candidate School where newly commissioned officers learn to lead and inspire fellow Marines. Black Hearts is a non-fiction story about the 502nd Infantry Regiment’s deployment to a region south of Baghdad, Iraq and it’s breakdown of leadership, morale, and discipline. The Unit was known as “The Black Heart Brigade.”
Throughout the rest of the book, the hopes of the army rose and fell quicker than a rollercoaster. The fate of the army always laid at the edge of destruction. David McCullough wrote many more works such as John Adams, Truman, Brave Companions, The Path Between the Seas, Mornings on Horseback, and more. Both Truman and John Adams won the Pulitzer Prize. McCullough has received the National Book Award twice for The Path Between the Seas and Mornings on Horseback.
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattilo Beals is a memoir about Beals experiences and her journey while integrating Little Rocks Central High School. She wanted to share her story about what it was like to grow up in the middle of the civil rights movement and what it was like to be one of the nine students who were the first African Americans to integrate a public all white school. During and after reading the book a few thoughts went through my head. First, was my reaction at the horrific things that were done to Melba by integrationist in Central High. For example, while in the bathroom stall a group of girls locked her in and began dumping paper that was light on fire onto her.
A novel based on the battle between the British and the French. Rifleman Matthew Dodd and Sergeant Godinot, tells the tale of both sides. As Rifleman Dodd, represented his on character development in the novel, he also attributed to the characteristics of the British Army. While Sergeant Godinot and his men represented the French Army, even though his ‘party’ was also put through lots of unnecessary stress due to lack of leadership skills. Throughout the novel, the perspective of both sides are told to show how each side was viewing their current situations and how leaders in the situations reacted during the occurrence of events.
What they do not look at: “Psychological effect of the war” War is something that has much more than physical effects. It is a burden on those involved on and off the battlefield. Being part of a war can affect you emotionally, mentally and physically. Even though soldiers are fighting for “just causes” was is an all-around negative event.
The book Vietnam: Free Fire Zone is the third book in the series and was written by Chris lynch. This series is about a group of four friends who have grown up together and eventually all go into the armed forces . The only catch is that they aren't there to have each other's backs anymore and are all in different branches. Rudi the main character of this book is portrayed as a puny person who always fails, until he is drafted into the marines that is . Throughout the book Rudi develops immensely and proves himself to be a good fit for the job.
In 2013 when Viet Thanh Nguyen began to write The Sympathizer, it had been 40 years since the Vietnam War. It had been 40 years since French and American military involvement ravaged a once beautiful countryside and littered lush forests with napalm. It had been 40 years since 2 million people were displaced from their country and left to die in the Pacific Ocean. In those 40 years, many works were published about the Vietnam War. These stories came from many, contrasting, perspectives.
He fought a war in Vietnam that he knew nothing about, all he knew was that, “Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons” (38). He realized that he put his life on the line for a war that is surrounded in controversy and questions. Through reading The Things They Carried, it was easy to feel connected to the characters; to feel their sorrow, confusion, and pain. O’Briens ability to make his readers feel as though they are actually there in the war zones with him is a unique ability that not every author possess.
Soldier Boys is a novel about two young boys, Spencer and Dieter, who have gone off to fight in World War II. Both boys decide to enlist to prove a point; Spencer joins to show his family that he is no longer a silly teenage boy with a crush and Dieter to prove how great of a German boy and soldier he is to the Fuhrer and Germans all over the world. They soon learn that the war is not about them, but instead the people they have chosen to protect and the beliefs they must stick by. The author, gives great insight to both sides of the same war and the emotions involved, because he writes about why people on either side join, how other soldiers and their actions influence what type of soldier a person becomes, and how the outcome of a single
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Hillenbrand is known as one of the best authors in the world, has written bestselling books such as Unbroken and Seabiscuit. Unbroken is a 2010 book of non-fiction describing the story of Resilience, Survival, and Redemption during the WWII. In other words, Unbroken is termed as the biography of Louis Zamperini, a WWII hero and a former star of Olympic who endured a plane crack in the Pacific. The book describes how he drifted on a raft for 47 days and lasted two years of imprisonment in the Japanese camps.
The Woman Warrior is a “memoir of a girlhood among ghosts” in which Maxine Hong Kingston recounts her experiences as a second generation immigrant. She tells the story of her childhood by intertwining Chinese talk-story and personal experience, filling in the gaps in her memory with assumptions. The Woman Warrior dismantles the archetype of the typical mother-daughter relationship by suggesting that diaspora redefines archetypes by combining conflicting societal norms. A mother’s typical role in a mother-daughter relationship is one of guidance and leadership. Parents are responsible for teaching a child right from wrong and good from evil.