Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
by Marcus Luttrell
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Author: Marcus LuttrellContributor: Patrick Robinson
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2009-05-01
ISBN: 0316044695
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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- ISBN13: 9780316044691
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Book Review: Edge of your seat reading
Summary: 5 Stars
It was extremely interesting to see what life is like for an elite American warrior. How these people make it through their training without quitting is incredible when you read what they are put through. However, while learning about what it takes to be a Navy Seal is interesting, the real interesting part is the account of the author's battle with three friends against a large Taliban force high in the Hindu Kush. It takes a real man to be willing to have a helicopter drop you and three fellow warriors in the heart of enemy territory in terrain that is only comprehensible if you have ever climbed a mountain higher than 12000 feet. Even then, these elite warriors traversed terrain that was terribly steep and inhospitable to, if discovered, potentially fight a fearless, determined enemy on its home turf. All four seals involved in this true account were awarded medals and they definitely earned them. When the story reaches the part where the fighting and evasion of the Taliban begins, it is riveting. A must read if you want to have any idea what it might be like to be an elite soldier in Afghanistan.
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Summary of Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive.This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, SEAL fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the largest loss of life in American Navy SEAL history. His squadmates fought valiantly beside him until he was the only one left alive, blasted by an RPG into a place where his pursuers could not find him. Over the next four days, terribly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell crawled for miles through the mountains and was taken in by sympathetic villagers who risked their lives to keep him safe from surrounding Taliban warriors.
A born and raised Texan, Marcus Luttrell takes us from the rigors of SEAL training, where he and his fellow SEALs discovered what it took to join the most elite of the American special forces, to a fight in the desolate hills of Afghanistan for which they never could have been prepared. His account of his squadmates' heroism and mutual support renders an experience that is both heartrending and life-affirming. In this rich chronicle of courage and sacrifice, honor and patriotism, Marcus Luttrell delivers a powerful narrative of modern war.
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