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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
slow-paced
I'll forever remember how he described wanting to lay there and die, from grief, from shock. But his thirst wouldn't let him.
I bought this as research material for a book I am writing, unfortunately, while it does work as a perfect mind and case study of the Americal Seal. The general arrogance, Ignorance, and one-sided outlook of the author clouded the writing and content too heavily for me to find it of much use. And, despite the assurances by the author that he is not a political man, this works very well as republican propaganda.
dark
tense
slow-paced
Promising title but the narrative didn't grab me. Gave it 100 pages, but lost interest along the way.
This book is amazing. I recently watched the movie, and it only includes about half of the story. It is simply unimaginable the kind of hell that Marcus and his fire team went through. And I completely agree that the media and the entirety of the western world truly doesn't quite understand how horrible war is, and how the rules we decide to follow are written by people who haven't been on the same continents it occurs on.
A good description of what it takes to become a navy seal and of a dangerous mission, but there are many huge problems with this book. I don't recommend it.
Spoiler alert-
An afghan village protects him from the Taliban, but they may face retribution from the Taliban including potentially assassinating the village leader and his entire family, but the author never follows up to see what happens to those that saved him nor explains why he hasn't.
He lies to the village repeatedly to protect his own skin.
He is obsessive that God is protecting him over and over and how grateful he is for God (blessing him) while many of his military peers are slaughtered.
He unwaveringly supports George Bush ( who lied to get us into iraq)and strongly states that if the military was allowed to massacre many more Afghans we could win, and blames liberals for all that is wrong. His viewpoint of how our country and a war should work is so far from reality it was hard to stomache.
Spoiler alert-
An afghan village protects him from the Taliban, but they may face retribution from the Taliban including potentially assassinating the village leader and his entire family, but the author never follows up to see what happens to those that saved him nor explains why he hasn't.
He lies to the village repeatedly to protect his own skin.
He is obsessive that God is protecting him over and over and how grateful he is for God (blessing him) while many of his military peers are slaughtered.
He unwaveringly supports George Bush ( who lied to get us into iraq)and strongly states that if the military was allowed to massacre many more Afghans we could win, and blames liberals for all that is wrong. His viewpoint of how our country and a war should work is so far from reality it was hard to stomache.
This book was not good. In fact, it was painful. The author goes off on various random rants that have nothing to do with the story line. In addition he spends the majority of the book talking about how awesome he is. On top of that, the story is hard to follow as it jumps around. I thank him and all service members for their service but this book sucks. Fearless and The Heart and the Fist were much better books.