Knights of Darkness: Secrets of the World's Deadliest Night Fighters

By Haha Lung

Book Overview

Throughout history, elite nighttime fighters move under the cover of darknes, silently and unseen, stalking and neutralizing their enemies with unparalleled skill. The Iga and Koga ninja clans of medieval Japan, the deadly moshuh nanren of China, the hwarang of Korea, the Middle East's fabled hashishin assassins, the Norse Ulfhedinn and North Vietnam's Vietcong all possessed stealth secrets that enabled them to neutralise any opponent. Dr. Haha Lung reveals the tactics of these superior warriors with both a historical narrative as well as tactics and guidance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806526181
• ISBN13: 9780806526188
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

READ ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This book is elementary reading(as stated in another review) but to someone that doesn't know a lot about these techniques, like myself, will find this book very informative indeed. This book involves rural and urban areas of infiltration technique. It involves countermeasures against detection. Gives you tactics on how to deceit the "guarding" dog and security personnel alike.It goes into everything from barbed wire fences to seismic detection cables ran under obstacles. How about foot stepping for stealth? Disappearing in shadows? Ingress and regress technique rules? Meditation techniques before the infiltration? YES! YES! YES! I am telling you this book is loaded with up-to-date tactics. I may be a beginner but I know a knowledgeable book when I read one. Detail is the ultimate success in this book. Easy reading and with practice, like everything else, easy learning!! GOING SOLO OR IN A TEAM. I am very satisfied with my purchase. Buy it! I honestly don't believe you will regret it. I am reading it for my 2nd. time through. There is also some history in it by the way to top it off. I hope you find this review helpful.

A lot of material covered

This is one of my favorite technical manuals I own. There are very few books I have found that focus on actual sneaking around. Instead of being like a military manual, it shows methods that even a single operator could utilize. Also focused on historical night fighters and time-tested methods, including ninja and middle eastern assassins. I'll have to admit the illustrations aren't that great, but they are adequate enough to get the point across. Unlike other books, you can tell that this one does not "hold back" information that some people would disagree against others being allowed to learn.

SECRETS REVEALED

This could be the manual for special forces operators on night fighting. I found this book to be an easy read, it is clearly illustrated and historically accurate. This 'how to' book is a comprehensive text, covering night fighting from the ninja to the modern day night fighters of the world's special forces. This eye-opening book will not leave you in the dark.

HELPFUL & ENTERTAINING

I THINK THAT THIS IS DR.LUNG'S BEST BOOK. IT COVERS EVERYTHING YOU WOULD NEED TO KNOW FOR A NIGHT MISSION. IT EXPLAINS THE DIFFERENT TECHNIQUES USED BY THE NIGHT WARRIORS OF THE PAST & PRESENT. EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT A NIGHT WARRIOR I WOULD STILL RECOMMEND THIS BOOK BECAUSE IT IS SO ENTERTAINING.

Nothing but Total Truth

I have studied Ninjutsu for seven years now, and no I don't think I am a master, but I ordered this book and once I read it I felt that if I was to go on a night mission I would be totally prepared.