Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 |  | Author: Marcus Luttrell
Creator: Patrick Robinson
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 464
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.4
ISBN: 0316044695
Dewey Decimal Number: 958.104
EAN: 9780316044691
ASIN: 0316044695
Publication Date: May 1, 2009
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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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 drama is good but everything else is horrible... March 7, 2010
boomer sooner (usa)
luttrell and his team deserve all of the accolades and honor for their service. their story is admirable.
luttrell's book, however, is not worth the read. instead of focusing on the ordeal -- a drama that would easily be engaging by itself -- he devotes much of the book for uneducated and ignorant rants about liberals, the media, religion, politics and people who never served. there are few books to which i regret the lost time spent reading and this is one of them.
4th Grade Writing Style March 4, 2010
Teddy Bax (Cortez, CO)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed books about Special Forces in the past and admire the men who have made it to this level. I was really looking forward to a good read about an admittedly amazing mission in Afghanistan.
After 50 pages my gag reflex was working at full strength. Do you really have to mention every other sentence how big, bad, and tough you are. I'll give this terrible author a hint that any screenwriter or decent action author knows. People are going to be impressed by describing in detail what the heroes do and letting us supply the admiration. You don't have to constantly tell the reader what to think. This book is the worst example of writing down to an audience that I have read in a long time. Another major fault is the constant repetition. At one point within the space of 6 or 7 paragraphs the Taliban were described with almost exactly the same adjectives 3 different times. I think the author thought he was being paid by the word.
I could go on, but the basic idea is that the book is very poorly written. I don't know how anyone above a 4th grade reading level slogs through this mess. I'm sure its a great story. Maybe someone could make a movie out of it. It would be one of the few times that the movie would have to be better than the book.
 This is one of the best books I ever read... February 28, 2010
GerryD (Vienna, Austria)
I read this book when it came out and found it to be completely riveting. Regardless of your position on the war in Afghanistan or global politics, you will appreciate the courage and honor of these guys. I am sharing my copy of the book with friends and they are all blown away by the story... This needs to be a motion picture!
Four SEALs and a Shale Hillside Swarming with Taliban February 24, 2010
Litecone (Portland, OR)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
You will not put this book down. Buy it. Read it. Then appreciate what others have done for your freedom. The book details the harrowing firefight of a 4-man SEAL team during a mission to kill or capture Ahmad Shah in Kunar Province.
Politics Should Not Intrude February 24, 2010
H. Gilmartin (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an engaging account of Navy Seal Training and of the Tragic end to a Special Forces Mission in Afghanistan. However, anyone who buys into the author's simplistic political diatribe should be very, very careful. Below are some of the discrepancies raised by the Father of the Seal Team Leader- Michael Murphy killed during the Mission described in the book.
****It's impossible to know if Mr. Luttrell, as the only American survivor of the attack, got his account right, but based on his knowledge of his son, Mr. Murphy contends that several things are wrong.
First, he says, as commanding officer, his son would not have relied on a vote. He might poll his men to get a sense of their feelings. He might let them think they were making the call, as long as they agreed with the decision he intended to make. Mr. Murphy said his son, who loved history, admired how Abraham Lincoln would pose a problem to his cabinet and let them think they were deciding, when he was actually guiding them to the answer he wanted. "Michael and I had long talks about this," Mr. Murphy said.
Second, he said, he never heard Michael use the term liberal media, nor did Michael think that way. From Mr. Murphy's years as a prosecutor, he has many journalist friends. "Michael knew and liked them," he said.
And third, he said, his son would never have seriously considered killing noncombatants.
"He wouldn't be able to live with himself," Mr. Murphy said. "Michael's view was there are more good people in this world than bad, and he gave people the benefit of the doubt. He was definitely not going to kill a 14-year-old boy who would have reminded him of his brother."
Mr. Murphy said that "even knowing the outcome" he was proud that his son let the herders go.****
Seems as though the author may have "spun" his account to fit a particular political viewpoint and in the process wrote a book full of red meat for ideologue partisans.
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