The authors consulted the following sources in reconstructing and ensuring the accuracy of historical events recounted in this memoir.
Books
Beckwith, Col. Charlie A., and Donald Knox. Delta Force: The Army’s Elite Counterterrorist Unit. New York: Avon Books, 1986.
Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down. New York: Penguin, 1999, 2000.
Bowden, Mark. Guests of the Ayatollah. New York: Grove Press, 2006.
Bowden, Mark. Killing Pablo. New York: Penguin, 2001.
Carney, Jr., Col. John T., and Benjamin F. Schemmer. No Room for Error: The Covert Operations of America’s Special Tactics Units from Iran to Afghanistan. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.
Landau, Alan M. and Frieda W.; Terry Griswold and D.M. Giangreco; and Hans Halberstadt. U.S. Special Forces: Airborne Rangers, Delta, & U.S. Navy Seals. Osceola, WI: MBI Publishing, 1999.
Muse Kurt, and John Gilstrap. Six Minutes to Freedom. New York: Citadel Press; Kensington, 2006.
Web Sites
Accounts of Special Operation at Panama and Grenada were researched at http://www.specialoperations.com.
The transcript of the NBC News broadcast on pp. 13–14 and 315–316, and the Nina Totenberg interview on page 324 were retrieved from the Media Research Center at www.mediaresearch.org.
The account of the Battle of Ia Drang Valley on page 33 is online at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ia_Drang.
The war crimes of Goran Jelisic recounted on page 297 are documented in “Jelisic Case: Summary of the Judgment” by International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), online at http://www.un.org/icty/brcko/judgement/jel-tresj9912e.htm. Jelisic was sentenced to forty years in prison for his crimes.