No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Unabridged)
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Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy SEAL who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.
From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama Bin Laden’s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group—known as SEAL Team Six—has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines.
No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and his fellow SEAL team members as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen’s life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden’s death, is an essential piece of modern history.
In No Easy Day, Owen also takes readers into the War on Terror and details the formation of the most elite units in the military. Owen’s story draws on his youth in Alaska and describes the SEALs’ quest to challenge themselves at the highest levels of physical and mental endurance. With boots-on-the-ground detail, Owen describes several missions that illustrate the life and work of a SEAL and the evolution of the team after the events of September 11.
In telling the true story of the SEALs whose talents, skills, experiences, and exceptional sacrifices led to one of the greatest victories in the War on Terror, Mark Owen honors the men who risk everything for our country, and he leaves readers with a deep understanding of the warriors who keep America safe.
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This book gave me such a well rounded perspective on what happened with UBL. The authors did a fantastic job sticking to the facts that they knew and telling the story in a straightforward manner. Thankful for truth tellers like this.
Interesting, informative and surprisingly well told
In no way did I expect the author of this book, a United States Navy Seal, to be unintelligent. If anything I expected the opposite to be true. It may not always be the case, but typically I imagine these operators to be exceptionally sharp, probably have to be. I was surprised, however, by the author’s talent as a writer and seemingly natural ability at storytelling.
This was a great book and great story told in way that both lends credibility to the author’s accounts and keeps the reader interested from start to finish. It is also brilliantly narrated. If the search for “UBL” that started after 9/11, though it should be noted that all aspects of that search are not a main point of focus in this book, but also and more importantly the brave and extraordinarily capable units that carry out these missions, are a point of interest, then this book is for you.
P.S I’ve seen some low ratings and poor reviews of this book. I’m not sure what those readers were expecting. To me this was a great book and I highly recommend it.