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| Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Category: EBooks
List Price: $11.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  786 reviews
Sales Rank: 395
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 390
Dewey Decimal Number: 958.1047
ASIN: B000QRIGLC
Publication Date: June 12, 2007
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 Stop reading reviews...Buy the book! June 21, 2007
60 out of 72 found this review helpful
Apparently some people are upset because Luttrell has an opinion and some attitude. I'll let you in on a little known secret...one does not survive any severe challenge without strong opinions and attitude. It is part of the man, therefore a required part of "his" story. Even if you still have your John Kerry bumper sticker still super-glued to your car and you truly believe in the vast right-wing conspiracy, you should buy this book for what it is, an amazing (and true) story and a great read. Stop pushing the liberal or conservative agenda for awhile and just be an appreciative American. Luttrell is the real deal.
Atticus review June 13, 2007
59 out of 78 found this review helpful
The Atticus Review is a disgraceful uniformed lie. The United States Navy stepped up immediately to help Gulab. Who was a policeman not a woodsman.
As Marcus Lutrell stated on the Today show ,the same Ancient tribal law that saved his life, forbid the American Admirals from rewarding Gulab in anyway personally. Any rewards had to be for the benefit of the entire village.
The Navy provided the Village with its first generators to produce their first ever electricity and drove in the first black-top road there had ever been to this mountainside village. Luttrell was there serving as a seal in Iraq at the time.
What a tragedy it would be if Atticus's warped misguided sense of injustice should blind anyone to the true quality of a book like LONE SURVIVOR.
Marcus Luttrell is a great American who continually put his life on the line for his country .
Anyone who writes a review like that is not fit to ties the shoes laces of an American hero like Marcus Luttrell.
After seeing Lutrell on the Today Show I bought and read this book in one day.
This is a riveting Memoir about courage, honor and loss that will live with me forever.
 Wait for better coverage July 5, 2007
48 out of 144 found this review helpful
I just spent the Fourth of July at a ceremony dedicating a statue to Danny Dietz, one of the brave men killed during the operation this book attempts to describe. A Moving ceremony, and I was very proud to take my children to it.
Too bad that this is such an adolescent take on what happened to Dietz and his colleagues. The authors spend so much time telling us how amazing Lutrell's teachers, family, friends, state, and of course, he, is that your eyes roll back in your head before you get to the real story. Sorry, I don't think that Texas is all that amazing. I've been there!
Many years ago I had the good fortune of working with a variety of special forces units during my time in the Air Force. They're all amazing men, no doubt, but if they have a shortcoming it is that they're only half as good as they think they are. They all think that they're the best, without a doubt and can accomplish anything, despite great odds and usually by themselves. I'm sure that this cocky attitude not only necessary for what they do, but I bet they're brainwashed with it during training. This book's editor should have seen that attitude and tempered it, in the process improving this text. It should have been sent back for another draft that purged it of all this super gung ho nonsense. A reviewer on Amazon.com UK recommends it to fans of Mr. T and the A-Team! Even if you believe every word, it sets a tone that is out of touch with reality. It really ruins what to me is an important story.
I hope that someday a talented professional writer takes on this story, gives us the facts and more in-depth analysis of what happened and why.
Lutrell may not be destined to be a great author, and Robinson should find another line of work, but as a soldier and as a fellow citizen I have nothing but complete admiration for Lutrell. Thanks Marcus, and god bless your friends for their sacrifice.
Incredible story June 12, 2007
47 out of 62 found this review helpful
God bless, Marcus Luttrell and his team. I read this book cover to cover and just saw Marcus interviewed on The Today Show. These are the men in service who deserve more praise. They are honorable, brave and decent. We should be all be proud. An awesome story that will leave you thinking.
Now words to describe the story June 13, 2007
45 out of 56 found this review helpful
I picked this book up with great anticipation on its release date and read in in two sittings...I could not put it down. The story of the heroism exemplified by the warrior elite SEALS and the patriotism displayed by those who supported his family in their time of need is awe inspiring. Thank you Marcus, Mikey, Axe, and Danny...It is becaue of men like you and stories like this that inspired me to join the military. God Bless America...
I would like to add a comment to Mr. Swan. Did you read the part of the book where Mr. Luttrell describes where they develop there ego and why they are so extremely gung ho? It is in the part where he takes us through BUD/S and hell week, which if you could complete you would feel the same way the SEALS do...invincible. You must also be a liberal if you compare killing the herdsman in the book with terrorism. But since your "enlightened" liberal attitude is unable to see the obvious difference, I will point it out to you. The herdsman were informants, making them allies with the Taliban, hardly making them inoccent. A civilian buying food at a local market and getting blown up by a suicide bomber is innocent, not sure how you fail to see the difference...but what would I know, I am only a God-fearing, Mom-loving, dim whitted christian American.
In regards to the gun story, he was not carrying an M4, and Mr. Luttrell himself describes the incident as a miracle, not making any claim to understanding how his gun was always at his side, but you see Mr. Swan, when you put your faith in Jesus Christ miracles happen...
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