Patrick robinson author of lone survivor
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On a clear night in late June 2005, four U.S. Navy SEALs left their base in northern Afghanistan for the mountainous Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a notorious al Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less then twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs remained alive.
This is the story of fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor of Operation Redwing, and the desperate battle in the mountains that led, ultimately, to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. But it is also, more than anything, the story of his teammates, who fought ferociously beside him until he was the last one left-blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade, blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing. Over the next four days, badly injured and presumed dead, Luttrell fought off six al Qaeda assassins who were sent to finish him, then crawled for seven miles through the mountains before he was taken in by a Pashtun tribe, who risked everything to protect him from the encircling Taliban killers.
A six-foot-five-inch Texan, Leading Petty Officer Luttrell takes us, blow-by-blow, through the brutal training of America's warrior elite and the relentless rites of passage req
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Lone Survivor (book)
2007 book overstep Marcus Luttrell
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The eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10
Memoirs are hard to review, because, while a reader can react to an author’s writing style or interpretation of events, he can’t really argue with a writer’s experiences. Those are personal and unchanging.
When it comes to memoirs, the author’s integrity is what’s most at stake. I can think of memoirs that tried to repaint the past, pretending perhaps that 20×20 hindsight was available at the time of such-and-such event. Political memoirs are notorious for this type of nonsense, yet to be fair, I think we can all attest to the fact that memories blur over time, and it’s often hard to recall the details of past events. Thus, part of the integrity issue in a memoir is this: how well does the author pretend to remember, and how honest is he about the foggy details?
In this regard, I felt that Marcus Luttrell has gifted his readers (and especially the surviving families) with a fantastic record. His integrity shines in his recalling the details of his BUDs training for the Navy SEALs (reminiscent of what’s written in Extreme Ownership), his openness about his own role in Operation Redwing which went haywire, and in his doing due research on thes