Volume 30, Number 20 · December 22, 1983
The Good Soldier
By Murray Kempton
Delta Force
by Charlie A Beckwith Col. USA (Ret.), by Donald Knox
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 310 pp., $14.95
Col. Charlie Beckwith commanded the Carter administration's failed effort to rescue the Iranian hostages by force in 1980. He has composed a memoir of that disaster, and it is at once a pity and an offense to decent sensibilities that William Safire of The New York Times should have been the first messenger to bring Beckwith's Delta Force to the public notice in his column of November 3.
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