Publisher Description
For the US Navy’s elite team of SEALs, the mission seemed straightforward enough: take control of a towering, 10,240-foot mountain peak called Takur Ghar, a key post in their plan to smash Taliban al Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan. But the enemy was waiting, and when the Special Forces chopper was shredded by enemy fire, a red-haired SEAL named Neil Roberts was thrown from the aircraft. Roberts’ fellow SEALs were determined to bring him out—no matter what the cost. This harrowing true account captures in dramatic detail their seventeen-hour battle, fought against near-impossible odds, to save one of their own.
This is a gripping you-are-there account based on stunning eyewitness testimony and painstaking research by journalist Malcolm MacPherson.
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“Alan read this a couple years ago and has been bugging me to read it ever since. It is a true story of Chinooks that got shot down in Afghanistan while inserting troops on a mountain peak. As Alan is a Chinook pilot, and flew past Roberts Ridge all the time while deployed in Afghanistan, this story was especially intriguing for him – he also met one of the guys whose hand got all but blown off. It is an incredible story. I listened to the audio – the narrator needs some pronunciation lessons (for instance, someone should have told him how to pronounce CHINOOK, since he said it about once a minute for the entire book. Bagram was another really bothersome pronunciation. It is only the hugest base in AF – you would think someone would have told him he was pronouncing it wrong!) The audio was kind of hard to follow – I would have to rewind and relisten to parts to picture everything just right. Alan said the book has pictures/maps which would have been extremely helpful! Regardless of the audio issues, the book was an amazingly detailed account of this incredible story. It’s just so real – so recent and close to home. It was a great read.”
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Melanie (5 out of 5 stars)
