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	• Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Marcus Luttrell Little, Brown and Company, 2007 - 390 pages average customer review:based on 744 reviews view larger image
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I highly recommend this book!!!!!

Thank-You Mr. Luttrell for this amazing book. Not many of us gets to hear the stories of the Navy Seals. I have read Rogue Warrior, and Combat Swimmer and this one beats them all. If you are interested in what it is like to be in battle as a Navy Seal when you are up against unbeatable odds then you need to read this book. You won't be disappointed.

Excellent Story Great Narrative Broad Strokes on American Policy

The story is excellent. Great narration, great detail about BUD/S and the Navy Indoc program. I felt like I was there with Luttrel. The narrative about Operation Redwing is very detailed and also subtlety tugs at the heart strings during the engagement when he loses his three team mates. Patrick Robinson's influence is also present, and I think this helps Luttrel in focusing his narrative.

Luttrel obviously has a well earned axe to grind against what he perceives American Policy and the media. However he also broadly condemns the media and Liberal, (I am interpreting this as Democrats) politicians in the United States Justice system's application of the rules of engagement. The rules of engagement cost him his friends and a part of his life. For that there is no compensation large enough. However by broadly condemning what he calls the "liberals" I think he is doing the narrative a disservice. I think it would have been better to leave it to the reader to draw their own conclusions about what might be wrong with the rules of engagement, our society, our approach to engaging in military conflict. I would have hoped that Patrick Robinson would have helped with this as an experienced writer and journalist. But perhaps Robinson has his own axe to grind as well.

I am not drawing judgement on Luttrel. His service and sacrifice are beyond anything anyone could have asked of one person. I just think that a narrative the draws conclusions for the reader is more of a personal vendetta than an exploration into the story that allows the reader to draw their own conclusion.

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Could've Been Much Better

This would've been a better book without the entire first half. Far too much time is devoted to subjects that have been covered many times ("The Warrior Elite: The Forging of SEAL Class 228" for example provides an in-depth narrative on SEAL training.)

The second half of the book is highly dramatic and, at times, touching. Still, my overall impression of the book is that it offers too much testosterone and not enough insight. Which is a shame because there are enough truly compelling passages to make you realize what a great book it could have been.

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Great

Makes me proud to be an American and have guys like these fighting for us!
Thank You.

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