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5 stars for the intense central story. 1000+ stars for the absolutely incredible courage of Luttrell in the face of impossible odds. 2 stars for the plodding section on SEAL training. 1 star for the consistently wooden writing from novelist Patrick Robinson. 0 stars for the unavoidable scrubbing from military PR, which leads to a bare minimum of difficult military-facing questions about a tragically failed recon mission. 0 stars for the rambling and repetitive polemics against easy scapegoats like the "liberal media." 0 stars for claiming you're "not political" and then writing about George W. Bush like he's a cross between Churchill and Walker, Texas Ranger (the supposedly apolitical Luttrell would later endorse the ill-fated presidential campaign of Rick Perry). 0 stars for fact-checking (Luttrell repeatedly - and rather smugly - goes to bat for some of the war's most-debunked theories: WMDs, Saddam as al Qaeda cheerleader, etc. More strangely, the authors mistakenly garble or deliberately embellish some of the details of Luttrell's own mission).
Let's call it 2 stars overall. Hell of a story, hell of a solider, deeply flawed book.
Let's call it 2 stars overall. Hell of a story, hell of a solider, deeply flawed book.