Elite Forces: An Encyclopedia of the World's Most Formidable Secret Armies

I have read most of the books published on the subject of Elite or Special Forces in the last twenty years and I have never been so impressed by a book by a new author to me. Richard Bennett seems to be prepared to rattle more than a few cages and question much that has been previously accepted as holy!A Great book!

'Elite' Forces is a breakthrough and will be thoroughly hated by all those who wish to prolong the many myths surrounding Special Forces. Bennett is kind to those who really deserve the title and scathing about the rest. He has obviously upset the applecart of both the authorities and all those 'authors' who believe their version of publicly available facts are the only truth. Bennett has done a fine job in sifting through the available literature and largely sorting the wheat from the chaff. Those authors whose material he seems to believe is correct he accepts at face value, however an awful lot of the rest the is simply discarded. This is by far the best compendium on the ELITE FORCES ever assembled. It might annoy and will undoubtedly infuriate many established so-called experts, but in the end the truth is paramount and those that complain most about Bennett's views are probably those with the weakest case. Get this book and be prepared to have your eyes opened to the truth. Ten out of ten for me.