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A Story of Courage and Sacrifice on Takur Ghar Mountain, Afghanistan
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August 2006
On Sale: July 25, 2006
384 pages
ISBN: 0553586807
EAN: 9780553586800
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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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