Roberts Ridge by Malcolm Macpherson

Roberts Ridge by Malcolm Macpherson

For the US Navy's elite team of SEALs, the mission seemed straightforward enough: take control of a towering, 10,240-foot mountain peak called Takur Ghar, a key post in their plan to smash Taliban al Qaeda in eastern Afghanistan. But the enemy was waiting, and when the Special Forces chopper was shredded by enemy fire, a red-haired SEAL named Neil Roberts was thrown from the aircraft. Roberts' fellow SEALs were determined to bring him out--no matter what the cost. This harrowing true account captures in dramatic detail their seventeen-hour battle, fought against near-impossible odds, to save one of their own. This is a gripping you-are-there account based on stunning eyewitness testimony and painstaking research by journalist Malcolm MacPherson.

Malcolm MacPherson and his wife Charlie live in the Virginia countryside with their daughters Molly and Fraser. He's worked on the staffs of New York Magazine and Premiere, and he's written for magazines ranging from The New York Times to Readers' Digest. He was a staff journalist for Newsweek for nearly fifteen years, based in the United States, Europe, and Africa, where he grabbed every opportunity to see elephants in the wild.

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ISBN 13	9780553586800
ISBN 10	0553586807
Title	Roberts Ridge
Author	Malcolm Macpherson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2006-07-25
Number of pages	400
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