Lone Survivor Civil War

Lone Survivor Civil WarFour US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to have a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive. This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, SEAL team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that

hailed by the Washington Post as "an illuminating account of how soldiers learn to kill and how they live with the experiences of having killed

including Frank McCourt

Enriching the narrative are the voices of men otherwise lost to history: the uncelebrated Army grunts who endured stifling temperatures

forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan

shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

This feature-rich edition includes an essay by Paret on the genesis of Clausewitz's book

In his New York Times bestseller

make decisions

From Silicon Valley software giant Intuit to a government agency on the plains of Oklahoma

hierarchy of command

or our ability to crunch numbers

This devastating turmoil has given rise to difficult questions