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Merc: American Soldiers Of Fortune by Jay Mallin; Robert K. Brown is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The fast-paced, fascinating, often shocking account of hired guns and their heroic adventures in hotspots around the worldincludes photos ( Milwaukee Journal ).Merc is a classic; first published in 1979, its characters and stories are as vivid and worthy of retelling today. American soldiers of fortune have seen action on nearly every battlefield in historyfrom the Revolutionary War to modern times, men like John Early, a member of the famed Selous Scouts who hunted terrorists in Rhodesia. They fight because they enjoy combat, for causes in which they passionately believe, for money, or simply for adventure.The mercs profiled in this book range from West Point graduates and Harvard poets to former CIA agents and ex-cons. They are men like William Morgan, a guerrilla leader in the Cuban uprising against Fulgencio Batista, later imprisoned and executed by Fidel Castro; David Marcus, raised in New Yorks Hells Kitchen, who went on to a brilliant career in law and reform politics and died in 1947 fighting for the survival of a tiny new nation called Israel; William Brooks, Vietnam Special Forces veteran who, down and out in a cheap Paris hotel, joined the French Foreign Legion and ended

Who reads Merc: American Soldiers Of Fortune?

Author

Jay Mallin; Robert K. Brown

Publisher

Macmillan Publishing Company

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780020984009

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Military, Anthropology, Memoir