<p>Review\n"If you like a quick-paced and action-packed story, you'll enjoy this one... The Soviets are working with the North Vietnamese at an experimental base to develop and test new strategies and tactics meant to cripple U.S. air and ground efforts in the Vietnam War. Navy pilots and the SEALS they support are a particularly deadly thorn in their side. Josh Haman, pilot of the helicopter with the call sign Big Mother 40, has proven himself to be cool under fire, steadfast when confronted with both belligerent hostiles and commanding officers, and a truly gifted and dedicated pilot...But as the action heats up, more than their lives and the lives of their men are at stake. The entire theater of war hangs in the balance. Liebman is veteran helicopter pilot himself and he has poured his first hand experience into Big Mother 40, his debut novel, so much so that you'll leave this novel feeling as though you might be able to fly a helo yourself. If you like a quick-paced and action-packed story, you'll enjoy this one." -- Historical Novel Society Review (review refers to an earlier edition)\nA great read on Navy helicopter rescue operations in the Vietnam era. It is a very well written, exciting, fast moving book about the life of two Navy lieutenants, a Navy Helicopter pilot and a Navy Seal and their teams performing their duties in extremely hazardous conditions. Although fiction, Liebman's knowledge of Navy Helicopter and Navy SEAL operations and the planning it takes to complete these types of missions is evident throughout the novel. His understanding of the overall concept of joint and naval operations and the specifics of both Special Forces and helicopter missions during the Vietnam era makes this a very believable scenario." --Ken L. Fisher, Rear Admiral USN (Ret.), Naval Aviator and fighter pilot. (review refers to an earlier edition)\n"It was my pleasure to review this magnificent book about U.S. Navy helicopter combat rescue operations for downed aviators and crews during the Vietnam War....Captain Liebman USN (Ret.) was an aviator in Vietnam and the Middle East. Liebman brought that background to the pages of this historical novel about the USN helicopter rescue crews that supported and extracted Navy SEAL combat surveillance teams in daring rescues behind enemy lines. The author reconstructs HH-3A Jolly Green Giant SAR missions from land bases and off carrier and destroyer decks against Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army forces. The HH-3A helicopters carried crews of five in huge, heavily armored and armed aircraft designed to hover, land, and fly over dangerous landing zones and heavy grass and forests where enemy troops waited to capture downed American helicopter and fixed wing aviators...The objectives of the rescue teams were to "get in and out" safely, authenticate operational procedures, and avoid flying into enemy traps. Riveting accounts of combat action, and helicopter approaches and take-offs from hot Landing Zones are frightening enough to read about, let alone do. Liebman's vivid descriptions put the reader into the action, with phrases like, "The crew watched as the tip of the (helicopter) blades chewed through the top of the elephant grass," with the enemy in close pursuit firing projectiles and bullets. And an aviator's radio warning that his helicopter "is hit. Losing gas out of my left wing tank. Gotta go home." And Liebman's description of combat action with "the ping of bullets going through the skin of the helicopter." And how an on-ground surveillance team discovers "the 10-foot chunk of a rotor blade that looks like it is from an H-3." --Thomas P. Ostrom, author of The United States Coast Guard: 1790 to the Present. (review refers to an earlier edition)\nFor a first novel, BIG MOTHER 40 by Marc Liebman is a suspense-drivenwork, from dynamic plot to fleshed-out characters to crisp dialogue to historic significance to dramatic suspense. Marc Liebman is the new ace inmilitary thrillers. He not on</p>

Big Mother 40 (Josh Haman Book 2)

Literature & Fiction

Liebman, Marc

Genre Fiction

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Big Mother 40 (Josh Haman Book 2)