For the first time the full story of U.S. amphibious special warfare units during WWII and the Korean War is revealed in gripping, painstakingly researched accounts of battles few knew even occurred. Author John B. Dwyer spent years gathering these first-person accounts of amphibious commando operations in Europe, North Africa, China and Korea. From the secret joint military-OSS and CIA missions and thrilling submarine ops to river raids deep into Nazi-controlled North Africa to fatal engagements with Japanese occupation forces in China, Dwyer chronicles the heroic feats of men who were willing to try anything and go anywhere to accomplish the dangerous missions. Illustrated throughout