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"A marvelously engrossing account of the military operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden...Richly told in broad, cinematic strokes, this is catnip for readers who enjoy special-ops tales."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"The book is more than just a high-adventure black ops thriller. It is a work of historical importance that sets the record straight about our struggle against forces dedicated to rebuilding an Islamic caliphate in the Middle East... It is a book you will read as you walk on the sidewalk because you do not want the action to stop."--Neil W. McCabe, Human Events
"Pfarrer certainly had access. A SEAL Team Six assault-element commander in the 1980s, he is known inside the intelligence community for his well-regarded first book, Warrior Soul...He clearly had detailed conversations with senior officers in the SEALs’ chain of command (especially Adm. William McRaven and then–SEAL Team Six commander Scott Kerr) and understands the vocabulary and the culture very well...SEAL Target Geronimo explodes a number of media myths about the raid to kill bin Laden...There was no “45-minute” running gun battle. The SEAL team fired only 12 bullets, and the whole operation lasted only 38 minutes...The most provocative part of the book is pure speculation: by killing bin Laden, did the SEALs accidentally do Zawahiri’s dirty work?... As the British Foreign Office used to famously say: 'Interesting, if true.'"--Richard Miniter, The Daily Beast
“Chuck Pfarrer writes with the brilliant eye of a novelist and the real-world authority of a soldier who has fought in the world’s most mysterious corners. He’s not only a poet and soldier, but also a deeply read historian. Pfarrer has written a true page-turner about the inside story of Operation Neptune’s Spear. There is enough action here, enough human drama, enough fascinating history, to keep you reading until dawn—you simply have to know what happens next. SEAL Target Geronimo is first-rate storytelling. It’s an amazing story, written about a world no one knows better than Chuck Pfarrer himself.”--Doug Stanton, author of In Harm’s Way and Horse Soldiers
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The true story of the killing of bin Laden by author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Chuck Pfarrer
On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. a satellite uplink was sent from Pakistan crackling into the situation room of the White House: "Geronimo, Echo, KIA." These words, spoken by a Navy SEAL, ended Osama bin Laden’s reign of terror. SEAL Target Geronimo is the story of Neptune's Spear from the men who were there. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details in an exclusive account of what happened as he takes readers inside the walls of Bin Laden’s compound penetrating deep into the terrorist’s lair to reach the exact spot where the Al Qaeda leader was cowering when the bullet entered his head. SEAL Target Geronimo is an explosive story of unparalleled valor and clockwork military precision carried out by the most elite fighting force in the world—the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six.
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Wer etwas über die Entstehungsgeschichte der SEAL`s und deren Ausbildung lesen will, ist einigermaßen gut bedient, ebenso wer Informationen über einen Einsatz der SEAL`s im Golf von Aden 2009 zur Befreiung eines amerikanischen Seemanns aus der Hand von Piraten sucht; wer weiters die Lebensgeschichte von Osama bin Laden im Zeitraffer verfolgen will, kann ebenfalls zugreifen (wobei es zu diesem Thema weit bessere Bücher gibt), wer aber erfahren will wie der Einsatz am 1. Mai dieses Jahres tatsächlich abgelaufen ist bzw. abgelaufen sein könnte (wie es wirklich war wissen wohl nur die direkt involvierten Personen), dem kann ich nur sagen: Finger weg!!; 70% des Buches beschäftigen sich mit den oben angeführten Themen, lediglich im letzten Viertel wird das Titelthema behandelt, dies jedoch auch alles andere als befriedigend. Das Titelthema wird im Artikel der Zeitschrift "The New Yorker" von Nicholas Schmidle vom 8. August weit besser veranschaulicht (Artikel gibt es gratis im Internet). Fazit: Verarschung pur, gäbe es null Sterne zu vergeben wäre dieses Elaborat ein heißer Anwärter dafür!
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A Book that Puts You There!
25. November 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
I read a lot of history books, and I find they tend to fall into two general categories -- a) those that are years in the writing, scholarly, exhaustively researched, extensively footnoted and annotated, and b) those that make history come alive. This book is clearly in the latter category. If you want to know what it's like to train to be a SEAL and to participate in a mission, this is that book. The author -- who was a Navy SEAL and for years has been involved in training Navy SEALs here and in Afghanistan and Iraq -- writes so descriptively, you'll feel the heat of the weapon in your hands, experience the jolt to your foot as you kick down the door in the Abbottabad compound and smell the musty air of Bin Laden's bedroom when you burst in.
What I didn't expect, and the book delivered, were chapters that put the mission in context -- including the geopolitical context going back decades, and the preparation for this particular mission through the context of the last several decades of SEAL missions. One element I particularly appreciated in the book was the section that gave a background to what made Bin Laden Bin Laden. It's popular to think that he sprung up from nowhere as a fully formed monster. But many factors made him the man he was who did the things he did. Chuck writes so vividly -- well, you don't exactly sympathize with Bin Laden -- but you do have an idea what it would have been like to BE him. That accomplishment takes a special and rare kind of historian and, I think, represents the main value of this book. A value that will stand even decades from now when the mission is declassified and someone has the extensive time and many research assistants it will take to write the fully annotated, exhaustively researched definitive account of the killing of Bin Laden. Perhaps Chuck will be that person. Perhaps it will be someone else. Perhaps, as is usually the case, it will take several books for the reader to be able to get "the full story".
I do want to address the negative reviewers -- not the one-star troll flamers who have never reviewed on Amazon before this and clearly have never read this book -- but the people who bought the book and thought it wasn't "extensive" enough. You do know the years and years of work that goes into those sorts of books? I doubt we'll ever have a more definitive book on Seabiscuit than Laura Hillenbrand's or a more multi-leveled biography of Kit Carson and his impact on the American West than Hampton Sides', but it took both of those authors nearly a decade to research and write each of their books. They also had the advantage of being able to stand on others' shoulders as they had access to a wealth of history, research, newspaper and contemporary accounts of their subjects and the gift of distance to put it all into perspective.
Chuck's book is first out of the gate and, it does have the advantage of his first-hand research -- both in his role as a contractor involved with the training of SEALs, his former service as a member of the elite SEAL Team Six and his primary research here and in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, not only did he not have Hillenbrand or Side's luxury of time for research, he was dealing with a subject for which many details are classified and necessitated that, even if he was privy to some of those details, he omit or obscure them for security's sake. It's a huge burden on a historian, but, as I contend, when the exhaustively researched, annotated account of the Bin Laden mission comes out, this book will still stand -- as a visceral description of how the mission went down.
What I didn't expect, and the book delivered, were chapters that put the mission in context -- including the geopolitical context going back decades, and the preparation for this particular mission through the context of the last several decades of SEAL missions. One element I particularly appreciated in the book was the section that gave a background to what made Bin Laden Bin Laden. It's popular to think that he sprung up from nowhere as a fully formed monster. But many factors made him the man he was who did the things he did. Chuck writes so vividly -- well, you don't exactly sympathize with Bin Laden -- but you do have an idea what it would have been like to BE him. That accomplishment takes a special and rare kind of historian and, I think, represents the main value of this book. A value that will stand even decades from now when the mission is declassified and someone has the extensive time and many research assistants it will take to write the fully annotated, exhaustively researched definitive account of the killing of Bin Laden. Perhaps Chuck will be that person. Perhaps it will be someone else. Perhaps, as is usually the case, it will take several books for the reader to be able to get "the full story".
I do want to address the negative reviewers -- not the one-star troll flamers who have never reviewed on Amazon before this and clearly have never read this book -- but the people who bought the book and thought it wasn't "extensive" enough. You do know the years and years of work that goes into those sorts of books? I doubt we'll ever have a more definitive book on Seabiscuit than Laura Hillenbrand's or a more multi-leveled biography of Kit Carson and his impact on the American West than Hampton Sides', but it took both of those authors nearly a decade to research and write each of their books. They also had the advantage of being able to stand on others' shoulders as they had access to a wealth of history, research, newspaper and contemporary accounts of their subjects and the gift of distance to put it all into perspective.
Chuck's book is first out of the gate and, it does have the advantage of his first-hand research -- both in his role as a contractor involved with the training of SEALs, his former service as a member of the elite SEAL Team Six and his primary research here and in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, not only did he not have Hillenbrand or Side's luxury of time for research, he was dealing with a subject for which many details are classified and necessitated that, even if he was privy to some of those details, he omit or obscure them for security's sake. It's a huge burden on a historian, but, as I contend, when the exhaustively researched, annotated account of the Bin Laden mission comes out, this book will still stand -- as a visceral description of how the mission went down.
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AWESOME
18. November 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
I find it strange how many of the reviewers who gave this read one star have never reviewed a single product on Amazon before! I sense a political desire to discredit the author and the truth because his account does not jive with the official "White House" account of what happened. I do know this, I read the book as I have read just about every book written on the Navy SEAL's, and I found it informative, exciting and more plausible than the "official" account of a "45 minute raid" and certainly more believable considering the author. My only reason for not giving it five stars is that it seems there was a rush to get this to print and the result was a few typos.
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DEAD "On Target"
27. November 2011
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This book is phenomenal and it makes sense. The official story from the White House changed multiple times, as if they were trying to make it "fit." Anyone who thinks OBL was sitting in his room as SEALS fought for around a half hour in a quiet neighborhood, then reached for his weapon and hid behind his wife, are not using common sense. He would have been fighting or prepared to fight and likely in a different location. Honestly, does the official story make ANY SENSE? It is obvious the SEALS surprised Bin Ladin, as this author asserts. Dropped on the roof and OBL dead in less than 2 minutes? OK, that makes sense!
Additionally, the personal attack on him and the comments from the White House are suspicious. If he were a "crack pot" or clueless, they would leave it alone. He simply isn't a "pawn." This is the only book officals have commented on, likely because it is correct and thus dangerous.
This guy is/was well connected and highly respected. In the spirit of "full disclosure," I had read a previous book by him called Warrior Soul. Once while on a plane and reading it, a former SEAL was sitting next to me. He told me Chuck Pfarrer was a legend. Legends are typically well connected.
The books is a terrific "read" and common sense dictates, the most accurate account.
Additionally, the personal attack on him and the comments from the White House are suspicious. If he were a "crack pot" or clueless, they would leave it alone. He simply isn't a "pawn." This is the only book officals have commented on, likely because it is correct and thus dangerous.
This guy is/was well connected and highly respected. In the spirit of "full disclosure," I had read a previous book by him called Warrior Soul. Once while on a plane and reading it, a former SEAL was sitting next to me. He told me Chuck Pfarrer was a legend. Legends are typically well connected.
The books is a terrific "read" and common sense dictates, the most accurate account.
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