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Brotherhood of Warriors: Behind Enemy Lines with a Commando in One of the World's Most Elite Counterterrorism Units
by: Aaron Cohen, Douglas Century

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.94054092
EAN: 9780061236150
ISBN: 0061236152
Label: Ecco
Manufacturer: Ecco
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: May 01, 2008
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Studio: Ecco
Sales Rank: 7947

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At the age of eighteen, Aaron Cohen left Beverly Hills to prove himself in the crucible of the armed forces. He was determined to be a part of Israel's most elite security cadre, akin to the American Green Berets and Navy SEALs. After fifteen months of grueling training designed to break down each individual man and to rebuild him as a warrior, Cohen was offered the only post a non-Israeli can hold in the special forces. In 1996 he joined a top-secret, highly controversial unit that dispatches operatives disguised as Arabs into the Palestinian-controlled West Bank to abduct terrorist leaders and bring them to Israel for interrogation and trial.

Between 1996 and 1998, Aaron Cohen would learn Hebrew and Arabic; become an expert in urban counterterror warfare, the martial art of Krav Maga, and undercover operations; and participate in dozens of life-or-death missions. He would infiltrate a Hamas wedding to seize a wanted terrorist and pose as an American journalist to set a trap for one of the financiers behind the Dizengoff Massacre, taking him down in a brutal, hand-to-hand struggle. A propulsive, gripping read, Cohen's story is a rare, fly-on-the-wall view into the shadowy world of "black ops" that redefines invincible strength, true danger, and inviolable security.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Excellent book
This is probably one of the best books I have read in a long time. It's a fast read, and hard to put down. Although a large section of it covers the author's background and training rather than actual missions, it is quite fascinating to read about the Israeli special forces training. One of the more interesting aspects of their training is what they call "aggressiveness training" which is basically one man against the rest of his squad in hand to hand combat. Pretty cool. The descriptions of actual missions was quite interesting as well. At the end the author makes some good recommendations about how the US should rethink it's methods of fighting terrorists. Overall an excellent book.

Rating:

- Don't Mess with this Real-Life ZOHAN!!!!
Aaron Cohen goes from being a pampered Beverly Hills slacker youth to a hardened, kick-ass Israeli Special Ops warrior in this engaging book. Goodbye 90210, hello Black Ops.Cohen traces the path of his personal transformation and his iron will desire to survive the rigors of the brutal training program that one must endure in order to become a counter-terrorism operative in the Israeli special forces.

The experience is so intense, however, that after about three years Cohen gets burned out and opts not to extend his service. Instead, he returns to Beverly Hills and starts up his own security service. Here, he closes his book with observations and criticisms of the American approach to security and lessons that the US should have learned after 9/11/

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- Brotherhood of Warriors
Unable to put it down. From personal experience, this author tells it like it is. Recommend reading for all having similar experience.

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- Brotherhood of Warriors
Two thirds of this book was disappointing as it was a boring disertation of Aaron Cohen's trip through Israeli Army's basic training regime. The last third was about actual missions of the Irael elite force and became what I thought the whole book would be about. The subject was interesting but time would be better spent with a different accounting of life in the Israeli military.

Rating:

- Intense and profound read
What started as a romantic quest to experience the honor and excitement of serving in the best trained SF in the world, ended as a burn-out depression and apathy due to the maelstrom of violence and stress experienced daily on highly dangerous missions to arrest wanted terrorists.

Highly recommended book-very graphic, brutal, honest, and powerful; makes a lasting impression. Although, I wish there was more on the particular operations Cohen has run, but I suppose its all classified. You walk away from the book with a pretty good comprehension of Israel, their military, and the citizen soldiers inhabiting the Holy Land and protecting its existence. All the best to Mr. Cohen, and hopefully he can help change US tactics he complains are so poorly thought out little by little.

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