Tailwind: A True Story

by Fred Bauer and Robert Van Buskirk

A true story by a Viet Nam Special Forces officer. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0849903416
• ISBN13: 9780849903410
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: W Publishing Group
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Well written and engaging autobiography

Excellent book about Bob, a Green Beret in the army and a survivor of the Vietnam War. This book follows Bob throughout his life with funny and purposeful anecdotes to illlustrate his choices and their consequences. If you look at his story as just a ho-hum story, your missing the point. Instead focus on which direction his life turned in response to each of his major life decisions. If he were to write another book, I would buy it, for there is no better example to learn from than someone who has done it all and happily succeeded.

I have a friend who was there, and I wonder if he's alive.

Good book I read 15 yrs. ago. I have recently learned from a friend, the brother of a"Tailwind" participent Green Beret, SOG sargent. The here-un-named Green Beret told the brother that -- the author-- --Lt. Van Buskirk-- was NOT allowed to include some 400 pgs. of text due to NSA restrictions. One wonders, to this day, if anyone can tell the truth about "Operation Tailwind."