Books & more: The hunting command

Fifty years old is the Jagdkommando. This book here is already five years old, but still the best insight into the special unit of the Austrian Armed Forces. Photographer Markus Gollner has presented the second volume of his book series "Speed Action Surprise" with this book and accompanied the Jagdkommando: during exercises on land and in the Danube, abroad in Afghanistan and Chad. He was up close with the combat swimmers and other commando soldiers of the Army, taking impressive pictures that are a worthy portrait of the Jagdkommando as a book. Five years later, for the 50th anniversary of the Jagdkommando, this book is still the volume one should treat themselves to if they want to see the elite of the Armed Forces in action.

“Speed Action Surprise - The Jagdkommando” by Markus Gollner, Action Unlimited, 2009, 230 pages. The book is available in bookstores or on Amazon for Euro 33,–.