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Roberts Ridge: A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan

By Malcolm Macpherson

Book information

Publisher
Dell
Year
2006
ISBN
0552151394, 9780552151399
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
729 kB (746650 bytes)
Edition
New Ed
Pages
400\0
Time added
2017-04-15 17:47:18
Biographies & Memoirs;Arts & Literature;Ethnic & N

Description

This is a gripping you-are-there account based on stunning eyewitness testimony and painstaking research by journalist Malcolm MacPherson. For the U.S. Navy's elite team of SEALs, the mission seemed straightforward enough: to take control of a towering, 10,240-foot mountain peak called Takur Ghar, a key post in their plan to smash Taliban al Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan. But the enemy was waiting, and when the Special Forces chopper was shredded by enemy fire, a red-haired SEAL named Neil Roberts was thrown from the aircraft. Roberts's fellow SEALs were determined to bring him out - no matter what the cost. This harrowing true account captures in dramatic detail their seventeen-hour battle, fought against near-impossible odds, to save one of their own.

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