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Title: Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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| Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Back Bay Books Great story tainted by juvenile rant | There's much to admire about this book. The detailed description of SEAL training was fascinating, and as the author was relating this experience he had my attention, my sympathy, and my respect. The whole portrayal of the firefight and its aftermath, when the author is being sheltered by the Afghanis, was can't-put-it-down material.
But too often, someone - the author or his collaborator - feels compelled to inject their simpleminded paranoia about the liberal media into this otherwise fascinating story. At this point the whole thing turns into a Rush Limbaugh show, and the entire enterprise crashes to the ground.
And are we really supposed to believe that as the SEALs are heatedly whispering among themselves, debating whether to murder three shepherds that happen upon them, fearing for their lives as they keep one eye out for the Taliban and the other on their hostages, someone in the group actually warns against execution because "the liberal media" could find out about it and crucify the SEALs? Please... | | Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Back Bay Books I am sure this will be a movie someday.... | What a great little book about an amazing group of people who defend the USA from threats many of us are aware of, but know little about. The author, Marcus, is a Navy Seal who was involved with one of the worst disasters in Seal Team history. This book goes in depth into how someone becomes a Seal, and what the Seal's do for the military and our country. The training they go through is really unbelievable - that part of the book is as good as the story of the failed mission where Marcus has to survive for five days while being hunted down by the Taliban.
Marcus is a hard-core right-wing Texan - and he does not hide that fact. He is honest about what he believes about the media, the 'liberal' politicians, and the like. I may not agree with all of his political beliefs, but that does not change the fact that the story is truly moving. I honor what he, and others like him, do for the USA.
Joseph Valentine Dworak | | Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Back Bay Books Be careful! I started reading and I couldn't put it down! | | While reading this book, I felt I was Marc Lutrell and it was me going through SEAL training and fighting along side Axe, Mikey and Danny. Thats how well this book is written. It was an educational, exciting, painfully realistic, humorous and exhilerating read. This book will wake you up! It opens your eyes about the damage that liberal know nothing media, lawyers and politicians do to our military and war fighting capabilities. This is not a read, it is an experience. | | Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Back Bay Books How LIBERALS KILL American heroes!!! | | This book shines the light of truth on how our LIBERAL: MEDIA, POLITICIANS (DEMOCRAT and REPUBLICAN), RETIRED MILITARY, PROFESSORS, TEACHERS and CITIZENS, directly have a hand in killing the finest young men and women our country produces. The evidence is irrefutable, LIBERAL'S KILL American heroes when they influence military rules of engagement, and we as real Americans should elect strong leaders to prevent their perversions. This book should be required reading for all teenage Americans, as it clearly introduces American exceptionalism and a hero creation process. Hero training is a first half of the book prelude to Operation Redwing, straight forward and inspiring, but only hinting at the action to come. When the actual mission begins hold on to your seats, because "LONE SURVIVOR" reads like a viewing of the 'Bourne Identity', and will force you to replace your list of favorite Super Hero names, like Superman and Hulk, with the names of real life heroes like Murphy, Axelson, Dietz, Kristensen and Luttrell. This work of nonfiction will enrage you and clarify why LIBERALS SHOULD BE DESPISED and fought at every opportunity, but you will also smile, laugh, tear up and be forever haunted by the fact these great men are real and their families loss is ours as Americans. Lastly, read "LONE SURVIVOR", pass it on, and let us all pray LIBERAL'S will see through their ignorance and stop COLLABORATING WITH THE ENEMY TO KILL future heroic Americans. | | Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Back Bay Books couldn't get past the firt 40 pages | | I really wanted to read this book, but found I couldn't get past the first 40 pages. The author he can't keep his personal political beliefs out of the narrative. If I heard one more great thing about George Bush or let's hear more about the "liberal American Media". Come on! Enough already, how about a good war story, not a rant taken from the Bill O'Reilly Show. And I'm sorry but modesty is not part of this guys lexicon. Ok, Ok, I get it the Seals are the Greatest soldiers, fighters, shooters, cooks, gardeners, painters, etc, in the world. Look I really wanted to like this book, but this guys ego and self righteous political comments were too much. Sometimes hearing someone being humble instead of saying how great they are goes down a little easier. I should have know when the jacket of the book had two good reviews, both from texas ( here's a little hint the author is also from texas). | | Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Back Bay Books Product Description | 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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