No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden

Author:   Mark Owen ,  Kevin Maurer
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN:  

9780451468741


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   06 May 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Mark Owen ,  Kevin Maurer
Publisher:   Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:   Dutton
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.357kg
ISBN:  

9780451468741


ISBN 10:   0451468740
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   06 May 2014
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping....No Easy Day puts you right there for every tense moment. --Entertainment Weekly Gripping....There is no better illustration in No Easy Day that SEALs are ruthless pragmatists. They think fast. They adapt to whatever faces them. They do what they have to do. --The New York Times [Mark Owen] has given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history. --People Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an important historic document. --Los Angeles Times A remarkably intimate glimpse into what motivates men striving to join an elite fighting force like the SEALS--and what keeps them there. --Associated Press This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping....No Easy Day puts you right there for every tense moment. Entertainment Weekly Gripping....There is no better illustration in No Easy Day that SEALs are ruthless pragmatists. They think fast. They adapt to whatever faces them. They do what they have to do. The New York Times [Mark Owen] has given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history. People Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an important historic document. Los Angeles Times


This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping....No Easy Day puts you right there for every tense moment. --Entertainment Weekly Gripping....There is no better illustration in No Easy Day that SEALs are ruthless pragmatists. They think fast. They adapt to whatever faces them. They do what they have to do. --The New York Times [Mark Owen] has given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history. --People Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an important historic document. --Los Angeles Times A remarkably intimate glimpse into what motivates men striving to join an elite fighting force like the SEALS--and what keeps them there. --Associated Press


This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping.... No Easy Day puts you right there for every tense moment. Entertainment Weekly Gripping....There is no better illustration in No Easy Day that SEALs are ruthless pragmatists. They think fast. They adapt to whatever faces them. They do what they have to do. The New York Times [Mark Owen] has given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history. People Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an important historic document. Los Angeles Times


This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping....<i>No Easy Day</i> puts you right there for every tense moment. <i>Entertainment Weekly </i> Gripping....There is no better illustration in <i>No Easy Day</i> that SEALs are ruthless pragmatists. They think fast. They adapt to whatever faces them. They do what they have to do. <i>The New York Times</i> [Mark Owen] has given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history. <i>People </i> Make no mistake: <i>No Easy Day</i> is an important historic document. <i>Los Angeles Times </i>


“This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping....No Easy Day puts you right there for every tense moment.”—Entertainment Weekly “Gripping....There is no better illustration in No Easy Day that SEALs are ruthless pragmatists. They think fast. They adapt to whatever faces them. They do what they have to do.”—The New York Times “[Mark Owen] has given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history.”—People “Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an important historic document.”—Los Angeles Times “A remarkably intimate glimpse into what motivates men striving to join an elite fighting force like the SEALS—and what keeps them there.”—Associated Press


This harrowing, minute-by-minute account by one of the highly trained members of Navy SEAL Team Six is narrative nonfiction at its most gripping.... No Easy Day puts you right there for every tense moment. -- Entertainment Weekly Gripping....There is no better illustration in No Easy Day that SEALs are ruthless pragmatists. They think fast. They adapt to whatever faces them. They do what they have to do. -- The New York Times [Mark Owen] has given us a brave retelling of one of the most important events in U.S. military history. -- People Make no mistake: No Easy Day is an important historic document. -- Los Angeles Times


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MARK OWEN is a former member of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team Six. In his many years as a Navy SEAL, he has participated in hundreds of missions around the globe, including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean in 2009. Owen was a team leader on Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 1, 2011, which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Owen was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist mastermind's hideout, where he witnessed Bin Laden's death. KEVIN MAURER has covered special operations forces for nine years. He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six times, spent a month in 2006 with special operations units in east Africa, and has embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq and Haiti.

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