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For seven months in 1967 the soldiers of Tiger Force lost control in a frenzy of torture, mutilation and cold-blooded murder. Stories started to leak back of women and children blown to pieces; of innocent civilians being routinely executed; of beheaded children and necklaces made from the severed ears of the dead. Afterwards no-one would talk about what happened, and the official investigation was swiftly curtailed.

The actions of Tiger Force in the Vietnam war have never been made public; some have even alleged they were subject to a government cover-up. The experimental unit of elite soldiers found itself in a brutal and baffling war where there were no rules, and their reaction was catastrophic.

TIGER FORCE is the previously unheard account of the true actions of these doomed men, and the consequences of this dark chapter in recent history. For the very first time, Pulitzer-prize winning authors Michael Sallah and Mitchell Weiss reveal the awful truth behind the American military's wall of silence. 'A vital and damning glimpse at what really goes on behind the wartime headlines.' Michael Sallah is The Blade's national affairs writer. Since joining the newspaper in 1989, he has covered issues from the Florida presidential election recount of 2000 to the recent sexual-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic church. He has won state and national awards and twice been named the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists' reporter of the year. Mitchell Weiss is The Blade's state editor. He joined the newspaper in 1998 after spending 12 years with The Associated Press, where he won state and national awards. Since joining The Blade he reported on the subway World Series in New York in 2000 and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.