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Roberts Ridge - A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Roberts Ridge - A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Loot Price R237
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Afghanistan, March 2002. In the early morning darkness on a frigid
mountaintop, a U.S. soldier is stranded, alone, surrounded by
fanatical al Qaeda fighters. For the man's fellow Navy SEALs, and
for waiting teams of Army Rangers, there was only one rule now:
leave no one behind. In this gripping you-are-there account-based
on stunning eyewitness testimony and painstaking
research-journalist Malcolm MacPherson thrusts us into a drama of
rescue, tragedy, and valor in a place that would be known as...
ROBERTS RIDGE
For an elite team of SEALs, the mission seemed straightforward
enough: take control of a towering 10,240-foot mountain peak called
Takur Ghar. Launched as part of Operation Anaconda-a
hammer-and-anvil plan to smash Taliban al Qaeda in eastern
Afghanistan -the taking of Takur Ghar would offer U.S. forces a key
strategic observation post. But the enemy was waiting, hidden in a
series of camouflaged trenches and bunkers-and when the Special
Forces chopper flared on the peak to land, it was shredded by a
hail of machine-gun, small arms, and RPG rounds. A red-haired SEAL
named Neil Roberts was thrown from the aircraft. And by the time
the shattered helicopter crash-landed on the valley floor seven
miles away, Roberts's fellow SEALs were determined to return to the
mountain peak and bring him out-no matter what the cost.
Drawing on the words of the men who were there-SEALs, Rangers,
medics, combat air controllers, and pilots-this harrowing true
account, the first book of its kind to chronicle the battle for
Takur Ghar, captures in dramatic detail a seventeen-hour pitched
battle fought at the highest elevation Americans have ever waged
war. At once an hour-by-hour, bullet-by-bullet chronicle of a
landmark battle and a sobering look at the capabilities and
limitations of America's high-tech army, Roberts Ridge is the
unforgettable story of a few dozen warriors who faced a single
fate: to live or die for their comrades in the face of
near-impossible odds.
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