Roberts Ridge

Malcolm MacPherson

ISBN 10: 0552166006 / ISBN 13: 9780552166003

Editore: Corgi Books, 2011

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Riassunto:

Their mission was straightforward - to set up an Al Qaeda observation post in the south-eastern mountains of Afghanistan. No-one was expecting any difficulties.

Instead three men - a Navy SEAL, an Air Force Combat Air Controller and an Army Ranger platoon commander - were pinned down by hostile fire on top of Takur Ghat mountain. Only one of them survived to recall the horrors of what became a truly terrible day . . . The resulting rescue mission turned into a seventeen hour battle that left seven soldiers dead.

Roberts Ridge is the visceral story of those seventeen hours. With access to Pentagon generals, the SEALS and the survivors, Malcolm MacPherson takes the reader deep into the heart of the battle of Takur Ghat and brings us face to face with the reality of the new war against terrorism.

Informazioni sull?autore: Malcolm McPherson was Newsweek's war correspondent in Israel, Cyprus, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Northern Ireland. He is also a former US Marine. As a writer he has written articles for the New York Times, Washington Post and Playboy as well as several non-fiction books, most recently The Cowboy and His Elephant and On a Wing and a Prayer. He lives in Warrenton, Virginia.

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Titolo: Roberts Ridge
Casa editrice: Corgi Books
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket