Gerhard---Holy War (Legends of Special Forces and Base Training Camps) (Legends of Special Forces and Base Training Camps)

Author: [UK] Tom Carlu
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This is a memoir-style novel written by British special forces soldier Tom Carlu, chronicling his legendary experiences during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Tom Carlu was a top-tier operative in the mysterious and renowned British Special Air Service (SAS), where extreme training repelled countless heroes, leaving only those with the extraordinary skills to fight alone and infiltrate the battlefield. Tom Carlu was sent to Afghanistan alone by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Tom Carlu's mission was to secretly gather intelligence on the Soviet army and its new weapons and equipment in Afghanistan. In the desolate mountains, he fought side by side with Muslim guerrillas who were once uneducated farmers, battling the powerful Soviet forces with courage and resilience. The Muslim guerrillas were unarmed, facing a starkly disproportionate force against the advanced-armed Soviets. Therefore, Tom Carlu had another important task: establishing a secret training camp in the mountainous no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Palestine, teaching Muslim civilians conventional military techniques as well as terrorist methods like kidnapping, assassination, and car bombings to fight the Soviets. Ironically, the training camps Tom Carlu established later became cradles for modern-day terrorist leaders, with Bin Laden graduating from one of them, and the "9/11" ideology originating from there.