Lone Survivor Civil War hailed by the Washington Post

hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed

hierarchy of command

or our ability to crunch numbers

Enriching the narrative are the voices of men otherwise lost to history: the uncelebrated Army grunts who endured stifling temperatures

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Lone Survivor Civil War hailed by the Washington PostFour 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 have 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 team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that