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The Abs Diet: The Six-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life
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Great-looking abs are more than just a way to support the mirror industry. In fact, strong abs and flat stomachs are the ultimate indicator of overall health-for both men and women. Great abs will help you live longer, sleep better, prevent back pain, and significantly improve your sex life! (And, hey, they don't look half-bad in the mirror, either.) Unfortunately, you could spend years on starvation diets and extreme exercise programs that never unearth those elusive stomach muscles.Or you could spend just six weeks with David Zinczenko, Editor-in-Chief of Men's Health magazine, on THE ABS DIET-an easy and effective program for everyone that is helping thousands of people lose weight, flatten their guts, banish post-pregnancy bellies, and become healthier than they ever thought possible. What's more, once on this revolutionary new diet you'll look and feel better than ever without deprivation dieting, counting calories, measuring foods, worrying about confusing phases-or ever feeling hungry!Sound impossible? Let David Zinczenko prove it to you. As editor-in-chief of the world's most important men's magazine, Zinczenko has devoted his career to helping people improve their lives through the latest and most well-researched health, nutrition, and exercise information available.Now, in the national bestseller THE ABS DIET, Zinczenko reveals his infallible formula that works for both men and women:The ABS DIET POWER foods: the 12 best foods (all part of an easy-to-remember acronym) that will naturally boost your metabolism so that you can strip away fat, build muscle, and look and feel great for life. (Bonus: Many of the Abs Diet Powerfoods are even-gasp-carbs!)SIMPLICITY: This low-maintenance program is easy to follow because there are no scales, no phases, no calculus-like formulas to compute, and no recipes that take a culinary degree to make. (One of the secret weapons: Satiating smoothies.) In fact, many of the dozens and dozens of delicious meals you can make take no more than a few minutes to prepare!INCENTIVE: The plan never leaves you hungry. Instead, it encourages you to eat (a whopping six times a day!), stokes your metabolism, and even lets you cheat now and then. ENERGY: Designed to help you build the lean muscle that and melt away that pesky belly fat, this full-body exercise program can be done at home in only 20 minutes, 3 times a week, with nothing more than a set of dumbbells! LONGEVITY: An easy-to-remember maintenance plan will help you maintain your flat stomach forever. Thousands of people are on THE ABS DIET, which can help you lose up to 20 pounds in six weeks-all while gaining pounds of muscle!-because it's easy to follow and even easier to stick to. THE ABS DIET also describes some of the stories of people who went on the program and had amazing successes. In those cases, these people ended up changing their waistlines-and their lives. THE ABS DIET is the best, last and only diet and nutrition plan that you will ever need.Read about how low-carb diets are making you fat, about how the food industry is putting secret fat bombs in your favorite foods, and about how you can fight back. You'll find out why 95 percent of all diets fail, and why THE ABS DIET is different.So how about joining on for a six-pack? Yours.- 12 "superfoods" that will change your life.- A simple maintenance plan to keep your abs from disappearingSix weeks to superior strength and sexy symmetry every man-and woman! -lusts after. Men's Health can show you how.
Customer Reviews:
Sound Advice, Easy to Follow.......2007-10-19
The Abs Diet offers logical, scientifically supported advice on eating properly. The plan is easy to follow -- I especially appreciated the fact that there is not an "induction phase," just principles to follow over the long-term. My husband and I have been eating this way for about 2 months now. We have found the diet simple to follow, even when eating out, and that our small children enjoy eating this way, too. That's a big bonus. We've experienced an increase in our overall health. The small digest, Abs Diet Eat Right Every Time, is a great resource when eating out. Overall an excellent guide to a healthy lifestyle.
Slow going.......2007-10-18
I just started my fourth week and have only lost about 1 lb per week. I've stuck to the diet, replacing my breakfast and lunch with the "oatmeal shake" and I've been walking 3 miles every day. The weight is coming off...just not as fast as I'd like. The thing I liked least about this was ordering from Amazon and expecting the book to arrive within 3 to 5 days as advertised. Three weeks seemed a bit excessive. Aside from that however, the things you can eat are easy enough to live with.
ABSolutely worth a look........2007-10-12
This book reminds me a lot of "Body For Life." It has a very workable plan to lose weight and the diet and exercise strategies are clearly laid out and explained in sufficient detail. Readers will find plenty of pictures too of the exercises that they are instructed to do. Motivational in nature, it's laid back writing style should appeal to many. Readers who like this book might also be interested in The Sixty-Second Motivator to help keep up their motivation to diet. Good luck!
Abs Diet is an easy lifestyle.......2007-09-20
This is an easy to follow, straightforward eating and exercising lifestyle. It is not a diet, but a smart way to eat to maintain a healthy weight and great for your overall well-being. I had followed the same guidelines as outlined in Men's Health magazine and lost over 100lbs.to bring me to a normal weight and 6% body fat.
Good Insight.......2007-09-18
I like the fact that the authors explain how things work in our bodies (how protein intake relates to the increased metabolism resulting from the workout, and to the muscle growth; which foods are good for metabolism; which of them aid in weight loss or lowering cholesterol levels). Although the idea of having six meals a day does not always fit my busy schedule, the one of snacking with fruits and/or nuts between main meals does seem to be effective in my case. What I like most about the book is the well balance diet that does not exclude any food groups. I am a great believer in the nourishment based on natural foods and The Abs Diet fully supports this belief. Dr. Tombak in the book "Can We Live 150 Year" farther explains proper food combination and its effect on our bodies. For that reason his book is a very good addition to The Abs Diet.
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The story of David's "mighty men" (primarily found in 2 Samuel 23) drives this challenging and encouraging book for Christian men. The mighty men weren't drafted into David's army because of their impressive resumes. They were broken men who, given an opportunity to achieve greatness, responded like champions. The author uses the story to illustrate the six battles David's men fought and men today must win to become powerful and effective warriors in God's kingdom.
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Every man needs it.......2006-06-25
I believe every mens group should study this book. I know everyone who reads this book will see a bit of himself somewhere while reading it. I will be taking this with me to my next mens group and i will make sure our group studies it.
I enjoyed reading about David's Mighty Men. How great would it be if we all had our own group of Mighty Men to encourage us through the battles of life. How much better would it be if we were asked to be a Mighty Man for someone else. A great book.
The Book Everyman must Read!.......2006-06-07
I had the oppurtunity of attending a Six Battles event in April of 2005. I met Bill and spent time talking with him. What an awesome man for God! My interest was initially peaked when I read his life changing book "When good men are tempted" that helped fuel the change in my life. When I met Bill and he walked us through the "Six Battles" that this book outlines it was and continues to be life changing. I have since read the book 3 times and using this book have started a new men's small group study. I look forward to what God has in store for me and it all started with this Book! So Men , Yes this book will help you get on fire for him and help you in your daily battles.
EXCELLENT BOOK!!! BILL REALLY HITS A HOMERUN!!!.......2006-02-15
This book has been such an inspiration for me and my daily struggles of creating balance between God, my family and work. Bill really puts things in perspective and creates an easy to understand guide of what truly works. Breaking things down into 6 battles we struggle with day to day is perfect for any man. I feel that my relationship with God and my wife has grown so much stronger and deeper because of this book. Thank you Bill! I highly recommend this book to anyone!
Just what I needed, when I needed it!.......2006-02-14
I just attended a Bill Perkins seminar & read this book cover to cover afterwards; I would highly recommend both to any Christian man (even if you don't consider yourself a strong Christian). Todays world is so full of 'advice' and I've read many self help books plus attended many seminars both for professional/business and personal reasons; this little book is more important to me than I can express but fortunately everyone can read it for themselves and/or attend one of the 'Six Battles' seminars. Thank you Bill.
A decent book.... a little light on practical information.......2006-01-24
"Six Battles Every Man Must Win" by Bill Perkins is focused on the spiritual battles men must face every day. The six battles listed include:
1. Fight for your identity
2. Fight for personal holiness
3. Fight for your family
4. Fight through pain
5. Fight for your friends
6. Fight for a strong faith
Each of the battles made sense, although I couldn't really relate to the family fight as I'm not married. However I'm sure that many men could relate to it.
I was most impressed with the chapter on fighting through pain. Bill nails the internal struggle that Christian men go through when dealing with pain. Temptation always starts with a baby step, disguised to seem like nothing at all. However it always leads to a slippery slope.
I enjoy Bill's idea of "buddyship" or the need to have male friends. Bill lists a number of reasons why it is important to have male friends, but like the majority of the book, he doesn't give practical advice regarding how to develop relationships. I really would have liked to have seen more practical advice regarding what to do, not just what I should do.
Regardless, this book is a good easy read. I didn't find it life-changing but it was a good review of issues that need to be dealt with as a man. 4 out of 5 stars.
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No one would have blamed David Dukes if he had declined reading for Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Not only is "Rainbow" a melting pot of secret-agent patois, but the 700-page-plus book version runs at a rampant pace--this despite the usual wealth of Clancy detail. But actor and audio pro Dukes (and the editor responsible for condensing the script onto six hours of tape) handles this daunting task admirably, applying a steady--but not urgent--Everyman's tone and imparting a sense that we're hearing the whole story. Listeners may want more, but will be satiated with this abridged rendition.
Dukes also bounces seamlessly among dialects, giving distinct but easy-to-understand voices to Rainbow, a colorful cast of international good guys assembled to save the world from terrorism. The group is led by a sometimes violent but justice-minded ex-CIA agent, John Clark, who is proof that Clancy can paint a dark protagonist as vividly as his good knight, Jack Ryan. But Rainbow Six is an equally bright showcase for reader Dukes, who, like Clark, is bent on providing justice. Dukes's reading gives justice to the abridged form. (Running time: six hours, four cassettes) --Rob McDonald
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Ex-Navy SEAL John Clark is the newly named head of Rainbow, an international task force dedicated to combating terrorism. In a trial by fire, he must stop a terrorist group of men and women so extreme that their success could literally mean the end of life on earth as we know it.
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Repetitious, too long and meandering, and technically wrong.......2007-06-16
I usually enjoy reading Clancy's novels, but this must be his worst. I tried to finish the book, but it took me almost three months. The story is highly repetitious, with similar incidents throughout the first half of the book. The prose was too verbose. The book could have been half the length and would have been better. Worse yet, Clancy was offbase in his over-eagerness to introduce new technologies, and promoted the DKL Lifeguard (supposedly a human presence detector), which was proven in a later Department of Justice double-blind study to perform no better than random chance, and upon a physical engineering dissection by Sandia National Lab, found to contain a block of plastic with a human hair in it as the active sensing element! Shame to Mr. Clancy for falling for that. One would have thought that someone who had been exposed to so much hi-tech through all his research would have had better sense.
Rainbow Six: Clancy's Best Novel Yet!!! =).......2007-05-01
This heart-pounding book is about a newly formed elite counter-terrorist group known as Rainbow Six. The organization is "blacker than black", as only a few select hundred in Washington, D.C. even know about the organization. John Clark leads Rainbow Six, and there are two teams of counter-terrorists, all hand-picked and trained. Suddenly, terrorists strike all over the world, from Bern, Switzerland to Worldpark, Spain. Rainbow swiftly responds to these attacks with devastating speed, neutralizing the enemy forces with astonishing skill and minimal casualties. But there is something behind the numerous terrorist attacks, as the Sydney Olympics approach, and the terrorists will unleash something deadly, capable of eliminating all of mankind to simply save the environment...
In this fast paced action novel, Clancy unweaves the mystery behind the motiveless terrorist attacks occurring in alarming frequency. The book is impossible to put down once you start reading, from the exciting introduction to the unexpected ending; all illustrated through lots of detail, making you want to read more.
Good story , but frequently poor writing.......2007-04-20
I think Tom Clancy has written some interesting novels in his career, but Rainbow Six displays some of Clancy's worst faults. The narrative is peppered with Clancy's own personal viewpoints on certain matters, reducing the suspension of disbelief so important for a thriller. To me a good writer should be an *impartial* teller of a tale, without injecting the book with the writers views on some matters. For example, a made up and fairly inoffensive example might go;
John Clark took a swig of Miller Lite and grimaced.
"Ugh, tastes like s***!" And he was right, all Miller beer tasted like s***.
Such lapses are as disconcerting as watching an intense movie and then having an actor look directly at the camera and say "I'm only doing it for the money".
Another writing fault is with national sterotypes, particularly the English. I lost count of the number of times I read such sub Spitfire pilot stuff like "Good show, old man!" "I say chaps" "Rather" and other outdated phrases. Tom Clancy seesm hellbent on injecting the most tired and cliched "Briticisms" and every oppurtunity. He seems to be wracking his brains for ways in which his English characters can say "bloody hell" "loo", "telly", "chappies", "wally" etc. Yes Mr Clancy, The "Brits" do talk differently, as you seem to delight in pointing out, but we kind of get the idea after the 100th time. I'm not English and not innately offended by any of it (I live in Scotland) but the English charcters are so overdone that if Clancy had intoduced a Scottish character I'd seriously half expect him to be called Hamish MacDougal, wear a kilt and play bagpipes. It'd be almost comical if it didn't get so tedious. And as I said most of these are *outdated* phrases. To me it's as odd as having the American characters talk ike Hopalong Cassidy or somebody from a Charlie Chan movie;
"Well gee, pardner, any news on the wherabouts of them low down horse rustlin' varmints? Let's head 'e, off at the pass"
"Say, what's the big idea?"
"Gee, you're a pretty swell fellow"
Sound ridiculous to appear in 1998 novel? Of course it is. And most Clancy national stereotypes are just as cringeworthy.
So overall, this book has me turning the pages, but it hasn't made for 100% smooth reading so far.
A mixed and confused bag.......2007-04-05
Tom Clancy is at his best when describing military weapons systems and tactics. He does less well with his human characters who seem real enough during their missions, but become two dimensional when the action stops. The magic of a good book is that the characters come to life. Unfortunately, in Rainbow Six they never really do, and so I never really cared what happened to them. More disturbing is the amoral tone of the book. Tom Clancy takes the position that counter-terrorism teams have to crossover to the dark side in the service of the good. This seemed supportable until the final mission where I felt the "good guys" lost their humanity. If you give up the moral high ground and sink to the level of terrorists are you really any better then they are?
Intense.......2007-02-16
Clancy really keeps you going on this one. Like inside Delta Force, this book takes you inside how these teams work and the stress they are under. Keep them coming.
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A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
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Where are the next Wise Men?.......2007-06-10
This is "an excellent read",, but it left me wondering why we have had no such minds in government in the last 30 years. It made me look back to our national leaders and great minds from the Founding Fathers through the short-lived Kennedy administration. From 1970 on, the bottom has fallen out. We have become late Rome.
Will Change Your View of the World .......2007-04-11
Not only kept me entertained, but completely changed my views on the post WWII era. A must read for anyone remotely interested in history or politics.
Wisdom Then.......2007-01-17
In a 1996 interview with David Gergen on NPR, one of this book's central characters makes a case for, what I will hazard to suggest, is one of the authors' central views;
DAVID GERGEN: Let me ask you this in terms of thinking back over then of that period of American foreign policy in the last forty or fifty years, one of the ironies here is that in an age of information you suggest we have too little wisdom.
GEORGE KENNAN: Yes, I do, and one of the things that bothers me about the computer culture of the present age is that one of the things of which it seems to me we have the least need is further information. What we really need is intelligent guidance in what to do with the information we've got.
Thus The Wise Men becomes a paean to, as the authors' admit at the outset, "the twentieth-century tradition of an informal brain trust of internationalists who first served Woodrow Wilson at Versailles and returned home to found the Council on Foreign Relations, " establishing along the way, "a distinguished network connecting Wall Street, Washington, worthy foundations, and proper clubs." The polemics about where one finds wisdom aside, The Wise Men provides a fascinating and uncompromising study of the evolution of U.S. foreign policy vis-à-vis the Soviet Union from the establishment of formal relations during the Roosevelt administration to Vietnam from the perspective of six of it's most significant players; Dean Acheson, Charles "Chip" Bohlen, Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovett and John McCloy with side trips into electoral politics and the Middle East. Although I found the authors' fascination with many of these individuals' membership in Harvard's elite Porcellian and Yale's Skull and Bones clubs a bit off-putting (to say nothing of the not-so-veiled apologia for a certain social elitism . . . call me a populist), it would be difficult to find six more pivotal characters. The arguably lesser stars make significant appearances, most notably the Alsop and Bundy brothers, Clark Clifford, James Forrestal and Paul Nitze. I will even forgive the authors' treatment of one of my heroes', George Kennan's, emotional shortcomings. For those of a certain ideological bent, John Foster Dulles and Dean Rusk are not treated sympathetically. It all rings true notwithstanding and The Wise Men makes an excellent post-war study of U.S. foreign policy particularly as a counterpoint to David Halberstam's "Best and the Brightest" for those too busy or cheap to subscribe to Foreign Affairs.
another reader.......2006-03-18
A very interesting book, but you have to be able to read between
the lines. Isaacson paints a picture of six powerful men who did
everything they could for US and mankind in general.
Another reviewer used the words fawning and uncritical to
describe the book. Well, there is a good reason for that.
Walter Isaacson, head of Aspen Institute, is himself a member
of the same "Insider Establishment" as the six men in
the book.
For kissing up, he has also been made a member of the
powerful Council on Foreign Relations.
This book should be combined with other more critical or
even negative writings on the subject to help build a more
realistic view.
For example I recommend books by the late Anthony Sutton.
Averell Harriman was a particularly unsavoury character, a
notorious Bilderberger, whose nefarious machinations are
becoming more and more known to the public, even
though still much is suppressed by the media.
Some people I have talked to think that the book should be called "the Wise Guys" instead of "the Wise Men" , but personally I wouldn't go that far.
The world isn't just black and white after all. These guys
looked after their own like everybody else on the planet and maybe, just maybe, in the meantime something good came out of it.
Exhaustive (exhausting), and fascinating.......1999-07-30
This book is fantastically interesting. The detail and the descriptions of personalities involved make the subject matter more than palatable, even to the less scholarly among us. The book is, however, very, very long and would have perhaps been better broken up into several volumes. I would characterize it as very well written, exhaustively researched, slightly fawning and uncritical at times, and, in general, well worth lugging around.
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A Controversial Classic.......2003-07-11
A controversial classic on the nature of the male psyche, The Masculine Journey looks at the six stages of manhood. The author builds his thesis on the six Hebrew words used for man in the Old Testament. It is the author's contention that manhood is a journey and that to be the men that God has called us to be, we must develop in our masculinity.
It is readable. It may not be a lot to ask, but too many of these kind of books are poorly written. For example, as I was reading The Masculine Journey, I was also reading Gordon Dalbey's Sons of the Father, the author's intents couldn't be more different. Aside from being almost unreadable, Dalbey sees men as victims, wounded by their father's in search of their manhood; whereas Hicks recognizes father's wounding, refuses to make men victims of their upbringing. Hicks is far more positive.
Although Hicks did try to avoid the cult of victimization he wasn't entirely successful. His reliance on, and quoting of, authors of the men's movement dates this otherwise excellent book. The men's movement authors convey a sense that men are adrift, not knowing which way to go and in doubt of their masculinity. Perhaps some men are adrift, but not all. Yes, there are father wounds, but not all men are wounded. Other reviewers call into doubt the Hicks exegetical scholarship. My Hebrew skills are inadequate to make a critical evaluation myself, but this should raise a flag of caution.
This was an extremely useful book. It helped me recognize the appropriateness of masculine behavior for each stage of life. What behavior is appropriate for a thirty year old, may not be appropriate for a sixty year old. The author also addresses the sexual issues in a way that few authors try; rather than skirting around the issue, he meets confronts it directly. The books also taught me about life's transitions. As we age from young, to middle age, to elderly, we, as men, need to change our perception as to who a man is, and what a man does.
Thought-provoking and challenging.......2002-11-23
The intent of this book is to examine six Hebrew words translated "man," moving from the generic term for a human, through four "masculinizing" stages, to the great end-stage of full maturation identified in The Sage. Well-respected Hebrew and Aramaic lexicons are referenced, enabling this reader to trust that the author was using objective source material and not attempting to get words to fit his agenda. An excellent appendix provides an overview of each of the six stages of manhood, providing, among many other things, an illustration of each term in both a Biblical character and a contemporary individual. The layout of the book could be improved by the publisher, particularly in chapter subdivisions, to more clearly identify the author's progression of thought and argument. However, the content is intellectually stimulating and, to one going through the "wounded" stage, deeply satisfying.
Very Illuminating.......1999-08-27
I found this book to be quite thought-provoking. It characterizes "manhood" in six "stages", each having their own purpose and issues. It put into words notions that I've been meditating about myself, as I get older. "When I was a child, I thought like a child...but when I became a man, I put away childish things." I read the book in one sitting and plan to reread it often for new insights as I go through my own journey.
Blasphemous.......1999-07-08
The author's interpretation of the Bible's comments on masculinity are his very own, and because of that, attempts breach the contract between the believer and God. It's blastphemous (not to mention silly) and the promise keepers fuzzy goal is distinctly UnAmerican.
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Companion workbook to I Love You More.
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In the summer of 1967, the good old days were ending for the hard-core 1st Brigade LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division, perhaps the finest maneuver element of its size in the history of the United States Army. It was a bitter pill. After working on their own in Vietnam for more than two years, the Brigade LRRPs were ordered to join forces with the division once again.
But even as these formidable hunters and killers were themselves swallowed up by the Screaming Eagles' Division LRPs to eventually become F Co., 58th Infantry, they continued the deadly, daring LRRP tradition. From saturation patrols along the Laotian border to near-suicide missions and compromised positions in the always dangerous A Shau valley, the F/58th unflinchingly faced death every day and became one of the most highly decorated companies in the history of the 101st.
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The Real Steel Deal.......2006-08-31
Read a memoir by a general and then read Six Silent Men. You'll see the difference right away. Nobody is holding back here, and nobody is trying to let anybody off the hook. This is volume two of three, a series that covers the entire life of the unit from activation to stand down. There is no self-serving BS anywhere in any of them. The words that come to mind are honor, honesty, and guts. Somebody once said Vietnam was a "war without heroes." They just weren't looking.
BUY THIS BOOK_BUY THIS BOOK.......2006-08-10
This is a great book, Kenn Miller is the LRP with one of the higest number of missions in Vietnam...he know what it was like, he has been there, done that
An exelent read, gives a very accurate account about what happend on the 20 of November 1968 and there by rames a spike in the rubbish that a certain Seattle resident has been whining about, " the army record does not match what is written in several vietnam books, so there for Gary Linderer, Larry Chambers, Kenn Miller, WT Grant and Bill Meacham must be fake and they make all the other veterans not like me, bu-hu huh hu, where is my wife's apron so I can hide"
Miller....you are one of my Hero's
EXCELLENT.......2006-03-11
A GREAT SECOND STEP IN THE TELLING OF THE LRP ROLE IN VIETNAM FROM ONE WHO WAS THERE. KEN MILLER TELLS THE STORY IN THE THIRD PERSON SO YOU DON'T GET THE "I DID THIS AND I DID THAT" NARRATION WHICH GETS OLD.
Excellent book, very well written and informative.......2005-08-07
This is another excellent addition to the series of books about the 101st Airborne LRRPs. The raw emotion will have you laughing, crying and enthralled. Just as with Rey Martinez' Book 1, and Gary Linderer's book 3, Kenn Miller interviewed veterans and got their stories. This is an extremely good way of getting an internal view of the emotions and experiences of the men who served in Vietnam. I have to say that I could not find a quote anywhere as stated below, and find the jealousy of some insulting to these authors with merit. I recommend reading the online "Brother against Brother" to find out just what type of BS some people will go to to slander these honorable men!
Highly recommended book, go out and buy a copy today!
Kenn Miller leads the pack in writing about NAM experiences........2004-02-01
There are few books about modern war that cause me to suspend my awareness of present surroundings while reading. This one does the deed. Kenn Miller's book Tiger The Lurp Dog introduced me to his exceptionally refined and gripping style of story telling. With Six Silent Men, Book Two, Miller continues to impress and inspire me. These were men of my generation "just doing a job" that deserves to see the light of day and a place in our memories and hearts. [...] Give this book your attention. It earns it by not being based just on imagination but on brotherhood, blood and guts and brains. A great read.
Book Description
"No way in hell you could survive 'out there' with six men. You couldn't live thirty minutes 'out there' with only six men." [pg. 13]
In 1965 nearly four hundred men were interviewed and only thirty-two selected for the infant LRRP Detachment of the lst Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Old-timers called it the suicide unit. Whether conducting prisoner snatches, search and destroy missions, or hunting for the enemy's secret base camps, LRRPs depended on one another 110 percent. One false step, one small mistake by one man could mean sudden death for all.
Author Reynel Martinez, himself a 101st LRRP Detachment veteran, takes us into the lives and battles of the extraordinary men for whom the brotherhood of war was and is an ever-present reality: the courage, the sacrifice, the sense of loss when one of your own dies. In the hills, valleys, and triple-canopy jungles, the ambushes, firefights, and copter crashes, LRRPs were among the best and bravest to fight in Vietnam.
Customer Reviews:
-.......2007-08-17
Martinez writes about the early years of the LRRPs in Vietnam; about formation and transformation of the unit and their training and equipment. Furthermore the book is filled with dozens of accounts of LRRP missions. From observation missions to kidnap missions etc. These accounts come from a nummber of ex-LRRPs who Martinez interviewed and from the author who was a LRRP himself. Result is a book full of interesting facts and stories full of heroism, action, drama, humor or whatsoever.
EXCELLENT.......2006-03-11
THE THIRD OF THE THREE BOOKS TELLING THE STORY OF THE LRP'S ROLE IN THE VIETNAM WAR. TOLD BY ONE WHO WAS THERE FOR MORE THAN ONE TOUR. GO ON PATROL, FEEL THE TENSION AND EXPERIENCE THE FEAR AND EXCITEMENT OF COMBAT. A GREAT READ!!
Excellent book, very informative.......2005-08-07
This book is very informative, and includes the accounts of various LRRPs who served in the LRRPs of the 101st. This is excellent, as you get different views on the experiences. If you are interested in the LRRPs of Vietnam, then this is one you should definately add to your collection!
Brave Men.......2004-10-21
Six silent men Reynel Martinez
101st LRRP
The 101st Long Range Reconnainsce Patrols worked all over Vietnam, from I Corp in the North to the delta in the South. At times they worked with the Marines and the Special Forces. They went out in 6 man teams. The goal was to locate the enemy and target it for others to kill.
The 101st arrived in Vietnam in July 1965, at Cam Ranh bay. They were highly trained due to the efforts of Major David Hackworth, the brigade operations officer. In September, 1965, to gather intelligence, the Long Range Recon Patrol group was set up under the command of 1srt Lt. Joel Stevenson. The unit was formally established on 15 October. 337 men volunteered, and 32 were accepted.
The book relates the histories of several of the men that the author knew. This is the 1st of 3 books written about the LRRPs by the men who served with them. It covers this authors time there. Other time periods are covered by other authors. The author is the son of one of the Darby Rangers of World War II. He went around in the 1980's and got each person's story for the book. Maps would have helped in this book.
Part of the training was knowledge of the rules of 1759, of Rogers Rangers, still valid today, and in an appendix.
Doing this kind of work was new for Americans. The Special Forces had been doing it for years, and the LRRPs borrowed some of their tactics. However, the SF worked with local people on patrol It was widely expected that the LRRP all American team would not last a week in the jungle.
One problem was the headquarters would want to send the LRRPs out as bait for the North Vietnamese, and then attack the North Vietnamese when the LRRPs were attacked. This tactic was fought by the LRRPs, as they did not have the firepower to stop large groups of enemy.
The author goes into lots of detail about who was on each mission, combat loads, and training. In an appendix, is a list of a variety of weapons the LRRPs used as well as the enemy. LRRPs used the Special Forces tiger uniforms that they acquired via barter or stealing.
A bunch of times the teams were inserted into hot landing zones and had to be extracted immediately.
This included their very first mission, which was being monitored by brass all the way to Saigon. On the first mission they almost lost the classified codes used, and had to go back to retrieve them while being fired upon.
Sometimes while under fire chopper pilots refused to retrieve the teams. Braver substitute pilots had to be found. As time went on, a bonding occurred between the pilots and the LRRPs, as the pilots knew that the LRRPs would come and get them if they got shot down. The LRRPs greatly admired the pilot's bravery.
The LRRPs carried whatever weapon they wanted. Most used M-16's but some carried shotguns, grease guns from WWII, SKS's, Thompson's, whatever. They borrowed strobe lights from the chopper pilots for use in signaling.
Many of the fights were within a few feet of the enemy. Several accounts relate the enemy looking directly at the men on one side of a bush, the LRRPs on the other side, and the enemy not seeing them due to LRRP camouflage.
Choppers at the time had to descend to the ground for the men to get aboard, as ladders and harness's had not been devised yet.
There were several occasion were teams were inserted into the wrong spots and got into big trouble, as there were lots of unexpected enemy, or they were in the target zone of a B-52 arc light bomb strike.
A bunch of the LRRPs were former Special Forces people.
Special Forces camps such as Dong Tre and Tra Bang were used as jump off points for some of the teams.
Sometimes they got orders that they knew were making them bait, so they said OK to the orders, but ignored them.
Once in a while they got inserted via boat. One Vietnamese crew put them in 30 miles North of the target area, and they ran into many VC and were in the way of a B-52 strike.
Some teams had scout dogs, but the teams considered them worthless as the dogs ate and drank too much, and gave away their locations by growling and whining. One dog kept biting the team members and mysteriously got fragged. (Killed by a grenade).
Sometimes they had time to fish and used "Dupont lures" (M-26 grenades.)
One mission was up north near Duc Pho, near Nui Dang hill, where Marine Carlos Hathcock got his 2500 yard sniper kill using a 50 caliber machine gun. Hathcock was a legend with the 101st too.
There were lots of people killed in this book. A lot of medals were given, Medals of Honor, Silver Stars. One person had acquired 13 purple hearts.
On one mission, they were flying for an insertion and spotted troops on the ground. They radioed this and were told that there were no friendlies in the area. They called in an air strike and found out later that the target was a group of American troops who had been inserted in the wrong landing zone.
May 1966 was the second generation of LRRPs, as the originals were being sent home. The 3rd generation came a year later. In 1967. Some men kept extending, staying overseas 5 and 6 years. LRRP troops were recruited for SF duty, and visa versa.
One mission they were on was to snatch a prisoner. He was a high ranking VC and they were in a no shooting mode, so as not to kill the potential prisoner. Shooting started immediately, and they got the prisoner they wanted plus a bunch of others.
Several funny incidents in local bars are included. One Lt had a pet bird that he used to take to the bar and buy drinks for. He told the bird to attack, at which point th bird would run out on his arm and squawk at the crowd. The bird always passed out. At another bar, they ran into a bunch of Koreans. There was a face off, and finally a Korean grabbed a beer out of a LRRPs hand, drank half of it, and handed it back. The LRRP finished it and the party was on. Other times they took beer back to base with them, a no-no. They had arguments with MP's trying to take the beer away. A Marine major was giving a bunch of static right after they had returned from a mission. The LRRPs listened to this for awhile, and one in the back finally yelled out "let's shoot the MF!". The Marine major advanced in the other direction quickly.
In July 1967, the LRRPs were running missions from the Tra Bong Special Forces camp. The author liked the Montagnard rations better than his own. Theirs was fish heads and rice, and hot peppers. The author did not envy the SF as they always had VC spies among their troops.
The author also went to the Recondo school while there, and participated in 10 mile runs with a 40 lb pack, plus weapons.
Men like Top Smith were idolized for his leadership ability. He never raised his voice or gave orders, just suggestions. He defended his men from headquarters. So did Superspade.
There was a mission where they called in an air strike and the planes and choppers came and shot the target up. There was a VC 51 cal machine gun that was shooting at the aircraft. Strike after strike came in, and the VC with the 51 cal kept shooting and wounded a couple of the planes. The LRRPs were impressed with the VC gunners bravery and cheered him on. After several passes, the aircraft finally silenced the machine gun.
Weather and leeches were a constant problem. They were on a mission when a typhoon came over them.
The monsoon season kept them wet and cold all the time. Electrical storms got so bad that it would set off the claymore mines and trip flares.
One man in their group was a medic. He was one of 3 brothers. He got killed on Nov 1, 1967, exactly 17 years to the day as his older brother, who died in Korea. He was one of the authors best friends.
An incident is related where the unit is out in the boonies and comes to a hamlet with a restaurant. They order a meal, and while eating a VC group comes in and orders lunch too. Both sides eat and leave, in opposite directions.
At one time the LRRP. s were working out of Song Be, on the Cambodian border. At least once they got picked up for extraction on the Cambodian side.
On leave in the states, he meets one of his team members for some drinks and go to a bar. A good looking girl sits with them. The author knows the girl has something on her mind. He has something on his mind. Both keep drinking. The author felt something was wrong. She finished her mixed drink and finally asked, "Well, how many babies did you kill in Vietnam"? Thinking this over, the author finally replied, "Not near enough. That's why I'm going back!". End of relationship.
Within 48 hours of landing back in Vietnam, he was in the bush again, in action.
They caught a VC paymaster with a bunch of gold leaf, and turned him in to the Vietnamese. Superspade turned the guy over to the Vietnamese. A few days later, the author saw the VC out. He had bought himself ort of prison. After returning from leave, he noted to Superspade how unfair the situation was, letting the VC paymaster go. Superspade showed the author his new gold teeth and said that the VC paymaster paid for them. He had kept a bunch of the VC money. He also noted that he saw the VC paymaster in the jungle later. The paymaster was arrogant to Superspade, thinking he had bought Superspade's silence. Fatal mistake.
The book ends after Tet, and the elimination of the 1st Brigade LRRPs as an independent organization.
There is an epilogue explaining where surviving members went.
A good book that would be better with maps.
Informative but...Boring.......2003-03-21
I've read a lot of books on Special Ops and especially Lurps in Vietnam. I haven't read a book yet that I didn't like but this one was rather boring. I have to agree with another reviewer that there "wasn't anything making me want to turn the page." If you like sit on the edge of your chair, can't put the book down for hours read this isn't it. Still the book is informative and the series is pretty good.
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