The Counter Terrorist Manual: A Practical Guide to Elite International Units

by Leroy Thompson

Book Overview

In the past thirty-five years, counter-terrorist units have been deployed to deal with airplane, ship, train, and bus hijackings. They have rescued hostages in various types of buildings and have dealt with barricaded bank robbers, prison rioters, and assorted dangerous criminals. Thousands have been rescued and millions have been safer because terrorists were aware that elite antiterrorist units were poised to take action should they take hostages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848325142
• ISBN13: 9781848325142
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Frontline Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A pick for any military library

The Counterterrorist Manual: A Practical Guide to Elite International Units provides a finely illustrated guidebook to antiterrorist units deployed to handle airplane, ship, train and bus hijackings. Units around the world are examined in a survey of these elite antiterrorist units and their operations, a pick for any military library and packed with color photos of equipment and more.