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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
The leader, and only survivor, of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs sent to northern Afghanistan to capture a well-known al Qaeda leader chronicles the events of the battle that killed his teammates and offers insight into the training of this elite group of warriors.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A Medal of Honor recipient shares the story of his military career, recounting his deployment to Afghanistan's volatile Korengal Valley and his life-risking efforts to provide medical aid to wounded fellow soldiers during an October 2007 Taliban ambush.
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Follows the courageous actions of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division as they engaged in sixteen months of continuous battle against Pakistani-based insurgents in Afghanistan, showing how close combat reshaped all of their lives.
6) The red circle: my life in the Navy Seal Sniper Corps and how I trained America's deadliest marksmen
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A rare and personal look at the inner workings of the US military through the eyes of a covert operations specialist.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This instant New York Times bestseller—"a jaw-dropping, fast-paced account" (New York Post) recounts SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's incredible four-hundred-mission career, including the attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips, and which culminated in the death of the world's most wanted terrorist—Osama bin Laden.
In The Operator, Robert...
In The Operator, Robert...
Author
Series
Special Operations files volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's teenage experiences on dive boats, why he decided to become a Navy SEAL, his training, and a mission he and his team went on to shut down a terrorist training camp in a cave network in Afghanistan in 2002.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir by a Special Operations Direct Action Sniper traces his extraordinary career during the War on Terror, which was marked by his record-setting deployment to Afghanistan and his face-off against an enemy sniper known only as The Chechnian.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Former Navy SEAL Senior Chief James Hatch tells a fierce, moving tale of being badly wounded on a special ops mission that ended his two-decades-long military career; his searing recovery; and the struggle to live life off the speeding train of war"--
Author
Publisher
Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Major General Jeffrey Schloesser, former Commanding General of the 101st Airborne Division and Regional Command-East, presents a memoir of leadership in the chaos and fog of the Afghanistan War. Among several battles, Schloesser takes readers deep into the Battle of Wanat, where nine U.S. soldiers were killed in a fierce, up-close fight to prevent a new operating base from being overrun. This encounter required Schloesser to make tactical decisions...
13) Lone survivor
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Caliber
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Terry McGowan had been a beat cop, a Marine captain, and a special agent for the FBI before retiring at the age of fifty. But when tragedy struck the United States on September 11, 2001, McGowan felt an undiminished sense of duty to protect and serve his country" (Book jacket).
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