No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden

Name: No Easy Day: The Only First-hand Account of the Navy Seal Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden
Rating: 4.567010402679443 (194 reviews)

Mark Owen · Kevin Maurer

Sep 2012 · Penguin UK

4.6

194 reviews

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THE GRIPPING FIRST-PERSON ACCOUNT OF BIN LADEN'S EXECUTION

For the first time, read the first-hand account of the planning and execution of the extraordinary mission to kill the terrorist mastermind.

No Easy Day puts readers inside the elite, handpicked twenty-four-man team known as SEAL Team Six as they train for the most important mission of their lives.

From the crash of the Black Hawk helicopter that threatened the mission with disaster, to the radio call confirming their target was dead, the SEAL team raid on bin Laden's secret HQ is recounted in nail-biting second-by-second detail.

Team leader Mark Owen takes readers behind enemy lines with one of the world's most astonishing fighting forces, in the only insider's account of their most spectacular mission.

'No Easy Day amounts to a cinematic account of the raid to kill Bin Laden: you feel as if you're sitting in the Black Hawk as it swoops in' NY Times

'A blistering first-hand account' The Sun

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4.6

194 reviews

A Google user

September 7, 2012

This book is a fantastic read and well worth the money. It is perfectly written and told from the author's perspective of the successful mission he was part of to kill Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaeda. The book tells you what it's like to be part of the United States Special Forces, not only telling the reader about Mark Owen growing up and eventually becoming a member of DEVGRU; a.k.a SEAL Team Six. It also gives you a glimpse of the role politics plays in carving out such missions, and how it's played out in the political field after it's become public knowledge. I loved reading every minute of it and I'm sure you will too.

Owen Huxley

January 7, 2013

This is a truly fantastic read. Its not perfect, I did get a bit lost at times with what was exactly going on, and occasionally i did find my self wanting a bit more detail (the times they were running four miles in, for example). However overall this is an amazing read that kept me gripped from start to finish. I have seen some people say that there are only two chapters on the actuall mission. I dont understand this, as for me about 3 quarters of the book was on the mission (planning and preparation included) or atleast it felt like that. Overall it is a great read and a thoroughly interesting insight into a seals life and what really happened on the UBL mission.

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A Google user

October 27, 2012

Can tell its written by a squaddie and not a professional writer, but that's what makes it so good as he tells it how it is and goes into first hand details of every mission, even what he ate the morning before the attack

About the author

Mark Owen is a former member of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group, commonly known as SEAL Team Six. In his many years as a Navy SEAL, he has participated in hundreds of missions around the globe, including the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean in 2009. Owen was a team leader on Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad, Pakistan, on 1 May 2011, which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Owen was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist mastermind's hideout, where he witnessed bin Laden's death. Mark Owen's name and the names of the other SEALs mentioned in this book have been changed for their security.

Kevin Maurer has covered special-operations forces for nine years. He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six times, spent a month in 2006 with special-operations units in east Africa, and has embedded with US forces in Iraq and Haiti. He is the author of four books, including several about special operations.

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