Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

 

Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell

Little Brown & Company

$24.99, hard back, 390 pages, 0-316-06759-8 (2007)

 

Though he probably wouldn’t admit it, Marcus Luttrell is a genuine war hero.  He joined the U.S. Navy in 1999 and was trained as a Navy Seal in 2002.  A year later he was in Baghdad and in 2005 was sent to Afghanistan on a mission to kill an al Qaeda leader near the Pakistan border.

 

This book is about that mission and the horrible losses suffered by his the other heroes of Seal Team 10.  But before he tells you about the mission, Luttrell spends nearly half the book describing how difficult the training is to become a Navy Seal.  When he completes his description of the immense challenges and unrelenting physical hardship, you’ll never again regard a Navy SEAL in the same way.

 

Luttrell then describes how things went terribly wrong during operation redwing and how he became the only survivor of that bloody battle.  He makes the reader understand and appreciate how each one of the men on that mission (and those who tried to save them) was a hero.

 

Regardless of how you feel about the presence of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, reading this book will make you proud of all our soldiers – especially the one who wrote this book.

 

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