Service: A Navy SEAL at War

a Navy SEAL at war

364 pages

English language

Published 2012 by Little, Brown and Co..

ISBN:
978-0-316-18536-3
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OCLC Number:
756584153

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The author, a Navy SEAL, returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him, and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything, including themselves, for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. In this book, we follow the author to Iraq, where he returns to the battlefield as a member of SEAL Team 5 to help take on the most dangerous city in the world, Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Al Anbar Province. There, in six months of high-intensity urban combat, he would be part of what has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S. Special Operations forces. We also return to Afghanistan and Operation Redwing, where he offers powerful …

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Subjects

  • Campaigns
  • United States
  • American Personal narratives
  • United States. Navy. SEALs
  • Iraq War, 2003-2011
  • Afghan War, 2001-
  • Officers
  • Biography