Michael Sallah
Autor(a) de Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War
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- Michael Sallah is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose powerful presentations on soldiers in war have captivated audiences across the country.
Sallah was the lead reporter in 2003 who uncovered one of the great military secrets of the last century: the Tiger Force case — the story of an elite platoon that dangerously spun out of control in Vietnam in 1967, slaughtering hundreds of civilians. The case was substantiated by the military in the longest war crimes case of the Vietnam conflict, but later buried by the Pentagon. Sallah and his colleagues received the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for exposing the events. He recently co-authored the book, Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War, which has been hailed by literary critics as one of the most important books ever written about the Vietnam War.
During his career, Sallah has received numerous state and national awards for his investigative stories on topics ranging from white-collar crime and clerical sex abuse to terrorism. Now investigations editor for The Miami Herald, Sallah has interviewed hundreds of veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq to explore one of the most fascinating and least understood aspects of war: why soldiers lose control.
Sallah will speak on MGC’s Cochran campus on Monday, April 9, in Russell Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
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The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage,… de Michael Sallah
focuses on Toledo native Wm Morgan who leaves his family & joins the rebels fighting Batista's men during the Cuban Revolution. Naivete soldier who does not see the writing on his political wall & is arrested, jailed , found guilty of smuggling guns. Arrested, jailed, convicted & shot by casto's firing squad
The Yankee Comandante is a great book on William Morgan and his role as an American in the Cuban Revolution. Morgan is part troublemaker and part adventure seeker as he finds his way from being in the U.S. Army and raising a family in Ohio to leading Cuban rebels in the mountains against dictator Fulgencio Batista.The book provides a well-rounded look on how Morgan transforms himself from an American who knows little about Cube (and much less the language) to a leader who is willing to take on Batista, Castro and anyone threatening his new family on the island. The story of Morgan is so engrossing that the book feels like a political thriller at times.
The book isn't a mere by biography about Morgan since it explores his wife's life, the background of some of his fellow commadantes and the overall Cuban political situation. The downside of this book is that the authors do expect the reader to already have some understanding of Cuba's place in the Cold War and the U.S.' relationship with the island nation prior to the Revolution.… (mais)
The book isn't a mere by biography about Morgan since it explores his wife's life, the background of some of his fellow commadantes and the overall Cuban political situation. The downside of this book is that the authors do expect the reader to already have some understanding of Cuba's place in the Cold War and the U.S.' relationship with the island nation prior to the Revolution.… (mais)
This was difficult to put down. I can't add much more than the other reviewers have written. I did question some of the "thoughts" that are put in the heads of men who were dead before the book was written. I felt that detracted from the authenticity of the work.
However, the cover ups that took place after the initial investigation and after the most recent one are not surprising but are disturbing. Don't the leaders get it? Practices will not change for the better if mistakes of the past are not recognized.
As for winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people, this volume is full of more information why that could never happen and I will not be surprised if I read books in a few years telling the same troubling occurrences taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq. Oops! Those stories are already in the press.… (mais)
However, the cover ups that took place after the initial investigation and after the most recent one are not surprising but are disturbing. Don't the leaders get it? Practices will not change for the better if mistakes of the past are not recognized.
As for winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese people, this volume is full of more information why that could never happen and I will not be surprised if I read books in a few years telling the same troubling occurrences taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq. Oops! Those stories are already in the press.… (mais)
Tiger Force was disappointing to me. Billed as a group of high-speed special operators, the Tigers were in reality, I came to understand very early in the book, merely a regular leg infantry scout platoon. Every battalion's got one. That set the book out on the wrong foot because from the dust jacket to the first chapter, you realize the authors have churched it up for the sake of sensationalism.
The book was well researched and written, though, and an interesting story.
In all, I think the authors put too much focus on portraying the atrocities committed as the result of psychotic soldiers run amok without supervision and just mentioned in passing the institutional and higher level leaders who set the conditions in which this type of horror can take place.
Let's not forget the Stanford Prison Experiment, or the Milgram Obedience Experiment, which makes quite clear that good, well-meaning, and average people will do unconscionable things if the environmental conditions are set in ways that foster those behaviors.
So this is a decent read, but it is an expose--it is investigative journalism doing the work of investigative journalism, NOT the work of war narrative or of military history.
Tiger Force was too sensationalized for me.… (mais)
The book was well researched and written, though, and an interesting story.
In all, I think the authors put too much focus on portraying the atrocities committed as the result of psychotic soldiers run amok without supervision and just mentioned in passing the institutional and higher level leaders who set the conditions in which this type of horror can take place.
Let's not forget the Stanford Prison Experiment, or the Milgram Obedience Experiment, which makes quite clear that good, well-meaning, and average people will do unconscionable things if the environmental conditions are set in ways that foster those behaviors.
So this is a decent read, but it is an expose--it is investigative journalism doing the work of investigative journalism, NOT the work of war narrative or of military history.
Tiger Force was too sensationalized for me.… (mais)
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