Chargin’ Charlie Beckwith is an American colonel who expects nothing less than perfection from his squad. When hostages are seized during the 1979 Iranian revolution, Chargin’ Charlie is given the chance to lead the rescue operation – and to show what a leader who demands the best can really achieve.
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Further Reading
The main sources for this show were Delta Force by Colonel Charles A Beckwith and Donald Knox; The Perfect Colleague? Multidimensional Perfectionism and Indicators of Social Disconnection in the Workplace by Emily Kleszewski and Kathleen Otto; and the research of my friend David Bodanis.