In less than three months, a few hundred Green Berets destroyed the Taleban's 100,000-strong army. At one point a Special Forces sniper had his gun trained on Osama bin Laden, only to be told to stand down for proper authority to engage. Even if you don't know your T-55s from your ZSU-23-4s, this is a readable and eye-opening account of the battle, but Robin Moore's gung-ho attitude to war is disturbing. The soldiers cheer when body parts of Taleban fighters come flying out of bombed bunkers, and make snide remarks about Allah and Islam. Their motto is 'De Oppresso Liber' ('Free the Oppressed'), but one wonders where the soldiers' true motivation lies when Moore comes out with lines like: 'Navy and Marine fighter pilots will fly anywhere they ask, and bomb any way they want, as long as they just get to kill something.'