The author gives you a thorough history of the formation of the Seals from when they were Frogmen men in WWII to then being UDT. He also goes into a little about other WWII special forces and the men who were behind the creation and the first training of these men. The first missions they were on as well as how the powers to be wanted to get rid of them after WWII and even after some of the work they did in Korea. He then goes into Kennedy and how he was behind the funding and pushing for the Seals after the Rangers and Green Berets, You then get a really big look at the men and missions that they were on during Vietnam. He does go over the men who would be awarded the CMH and then how after the war it slowed down somewhat. He talks a little about the formation of Seal team six and the reason behind it. He does not talk about Grenada, Panama where they lost Seals on both missions. For the longest time up until Red Wing and Extortion 17, Panama had been the largest loss of life for Seals but there is no mention of it in this book at all.
Okay that being said my peace after reading some of the reviews this book is a history of the formation and creation of the Seals. They started out as frogmen going into Islands Tawara being one there were others and charting the ocean current tides for when the Marines and Army would be coming to a shore. They had no protection those first guys were bad mofos. Now my father fought in WWII and Korea and I grew up around Army and Marines I know weird but anyway I heard about Seals when I was a kid, they were called UDT, Under Water Demolition and those old dudes were just as bad as some of these dudes nowadays. I should not be saying this but my father had a high-security clearance and he would sometimes take his young son with him to Coronado in the sixties. These guys and this book is real, the stories and the history are all true for you people who want to say no you need to read some more history books and find out. I will get off my soap box but this is a good book about the history of the Seals if you don’t read my review read this book!

I really liked the narrator's perspective. His writing was accessible and interesting. I liked his view of the world and how he shared that with his audience.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC of this new book.

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The author was new to me... and what a great surprise! I learned so much from this... I work with many veterans and will be highly recommending this work to them! I am an avid reader of history but each page here was new to me. The writing quality is so good. I hope the author continues.

This was clearly a passion project. It's usually enjoyable to read something where the author truly cares about the topic.

I've always had an interest in military history, and who doesn't have at least some curiosity about what has essentially become the celebrities of the Special Operations community? There were so many possible routes and diverging paths the author could have taken, and he did acknowledge that, but what he settled on did make sense. The story was coherent and engaging.

Overall I enjoyed the read.