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From the strange-but-true files comes this story from writer and documentary filmmaker Ronson about the U.S. Army's "First Earth Battalion," a top-secret unit started in 1979 to develop and test new fighting techniques such as walking through walls, turning invisible, and killing goats by staring at them. While the Battalion never achieved success in these areas (that we know of), it still exists today, developing experimental new torture techniques (e.g., playing the Barney theme song to prisoners) for use in places such as Iraq.
Simon & Schuster, 272 pages
04/12/2005
$24.00
ISBN: 0743241924
Nonfiction
Current Events & Politics
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The average user rating for this book is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
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Edward S gave it an8:
Non-Fiction gotta admit that...crazy opinions though
Dan C gave it a2:
I was excited to read this book, but the thinness of its sources made me very skeptical of its conclusions. It's apparent that Ronson interviewed at least a couple of semi-delusional self-promoters, but made next to no effort to check up on their sources. At the end of the book (which bizarrely jags into a story about CIA murder, the relevance of which is unclear), the reader is left with some bizarre stories, but no way of figuring out if they are true.
dory gave it a9:
almost any work of literature that gets you thinking and wanting to explore deeper is a success in my book...and although a lot of the intervewees stories seemed to be far-fetched, many of them tied together with others. and anyway, the author never claimed that it was all true. in fact, he seemed to be pretty sceptical of some of it himself. i give it two thumbs up.
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