商品の説明

Delta Force. They are the U.S. Army’s most elite top-secret strike force. They dominate the modern battlefield, but you won’t hear about their heroics on CNN. No headlines can reveal their top-secret missions, and no book has ever taken readers inside–until now. Here, a founding member of Delta Force takes us behind the veil of secrecy and into the action-to reveal the never-before-told story of 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-D (Delta Force).

INSIDE DELTA FORCE
THE STORY OF AMERICA’S ELITE
COUNTERTERRORIST UNIT

He is a master of espionage, trained to take on hijackers, terrorists, hostage takers, and enemy armies. He can deploy by parachute or arrive by commercial aircraft. Survive alone in hostile cities. Speak foreign languages fluently. Strike at enemy targets with stunning swiftness and extraordinary teamwork. He is the ultimate modern warrior: the Delta Force Operator.

In this dramatic behind-the-scenes chronicle, Eric Haney, one of the founding members of Delta Force, takes us inside this legendary counterterrorist unit. Here, for the first time, are details of the grueling selection process–designed to break the strongest of men–that singles out the best of the best: the Delta Force Operator.

With heart-stopping immediacy, Haney tells what it’s really like to enter a hostage-held airplane. And from his days in Beirut, Haney tells an unforgettable tale of bodyguards and bombs, of a day-to-day life of madness and beauty, and of how he and a teammate are called on to kill two gunmen targeting U.S. Marines at the Beirut airport. As part of the team sent to rescue American hostages in Tehran, Haney offers a first-person description of that failed mission that is a chilling, compelling account of a bold maneuver undone by chance–and a few fatal mistakes.

From fighting guerrilla warfare in Honduras to rescuing missionaries in Sudan and leading the way onto the island of Grenada, Eric Haney captures the daring and discipline that distinguish the men of Delta Force. Inside Delta Force brings honor to these singular men while it puts us in the middle of action that is sudden, frightening, and nonstop around the world.

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #385391 / 本
• 発売日: 2002-12
• 版型: 単行本
• 350 ページ

内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
デルタ・フォース戦闘員は、死線をさまようほどの過酷な選抜課程を耐え抜いた精鋭だ。彼らはあらゆる状況を想定して訓練を行なう。射撃、ハイジャックされた飛行機への強襲、爆発物の取り扱い、謀報活動、要人警護…いずれも最高水準の対テロ技術を、実戦以上の緊張とプレッシャーのなかで習得し、任務の計画を自ら立てる知性をも磨いてゆく。部隊創設後、デルタは国際紛争やテロ事件の背後で活躍してきた。初の出動となったテヘランのアメリカ大使館人質救出作戦、ベイルートでのテロリスト狙撃任務、ホンジュラスにおける反政府ゲリラ掃討など、幾多の修羅場を踏んだ歴戦の戦闘員が、デルタの比類なき戦闘能力、サバイバル技術をはじめとして、心身の強靭さの秘密をあますところなく明かした注目の証言、ここに登場。

内容（「MARC」データベースより）
SASと並び、世界最強と称されるアメリカ陸軍第一特殊部隊作戦支隊-デルタ。部隊の創設メンバーが、兵士の視点から、公式には存在しない対テロ極秘組織のすべてを克明に語る。

From Publishers Weekly
Haney, a founding member of Delta Force who retired a command sergeant major, was a career army man, having served in the elite Rangers; his memoir covers his experiences during the formation and early operations of 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta. In the fall of 1978, Haney was recruited and ordered to report to a secret corner of expansive Fort Bragg, N.C., where he underwent a rigorous selection process familiar from similar memoirs. In the second section of three, Haney describes advanced work with explosives and weapons, studying airplanes to plan hostage rescues, and the "final exam," in which the class was sent to the nation's capital, given precise assignments and had to evade the FBI. (The result a red-faced FBI.) Haney then relates his assignments: he served three times in Beirut guarding the American ambassador, participated in the invasion of Grenada, served in several Central American countries and narrowly escaped death during the abortive rescue attempt of the American hostages in Iran. Will he and a partner successfully eliminate a sniper harassing the Marines in Beirut? Will his unit rescue hostages aboard a hijacked plane without losing any hostages? Readers of other special forces memoirs will find this one distinctive for Haney's attention to interservice rivalries (he has a lot of negative things to say about the CIA) that he believes compromised several missions, as well as for Haney's nuanced, often disgusted descriptions of the human cost of war.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

カスタマーレビュー

おもしろい☆・・・！！。
著者はSASと並ぶ世界最高峰特殊部隊デルタフォースの創設メンバー。
話は上官からの新しい特殊部隊への誘いから始まります
前半部分はデルタ選抜訓練が主で極限状態の続く訓練を独特のユーモアで語ってくれます。
中盤から後半にかけては、晴れてデルタフォースへとなり関わった任務を通して変化していく著者の組織に対する感情の変化がとてもおもしろく描かれています。
特殊部隊に興味がなくともSAS戦闘員（上・下）、ブラヴォー・ツー・ゼロ、強襲部隊（映画ブラックホークダウン）（漫画マスターキートン）などを読んで面白いと思ったなら間違いなく読むべきです！！

影となって生きる男達
部隊の創設メンバーが、兵士の視点から、無知な一般人を対象に語ってくれていることがなによりの魅力。
ノンフィクションなのだと強く意識しなければならないほど、まるで極上のサスペンスを読んでいるがごとく吸い込まれる。しかし読み進むほど、それがいかに不謹慎なことかを実感させられる。今も人知れず今も世界のどこかで活躍していることだろう。

我々が何の心配もなく暮らせるように、人知れず「影」として存在し、命を懸けて最悪の危険に自ら進んで飛び込む男達の存在に、本書は始めて光を当てたといってよい。
「２００１年９月１１日以降」と題した章での彼の言葉には、大いに感動させられた。