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Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 266 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A dramatic account of the hunt for and defeat of Osama bin Laden draws on unprecedented access to primary sources to trace how key decisions were made, revealing events from the perspectives of an adept President Obama and an increasingly despondent bin Laden.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high octane narrative of physical and mental toughness, giving unprecedented insight to the inner workings of the training and secret missions of the world's most respected and feared combat unit--Seal Team Six, the elite warriors who took down Osama bin Laden.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
xii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Richard Marcinko was the U.S. Navy's most unconventional warrior -- and its most deadly. A master practitioner of the, "Let's Do It to Them Before They Do It to Us," school of survival, he was often as feared by his own high command as by the enemy.This brilliant, tough-as-nails military virtuoso of violence -- ambushes, booby, traps, exotic weaponry, high altitude parachute drops, underwater infiltrations, face-to-face killing -- rose through Navy...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of current and former Navy Seals, Eyes on Target is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi where a retired SEAL sniper with a small team held off one hundred terrorists while his repeated radio calls for help went unheeded.
The book contains incredible accounts...
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mid-nineteen sixties, Harry Constance made a life-altering journey that led him out of Texas and into the jungles of Vietnam. As a young naval officer, he went from UDT training to the U.S. Navy's newly formed SEAL Team Two, then straight into furious action. By 1970, he was already the veteran of three hundred combat missions and the recipient of thirty-two military citations, including three Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart.Good to Go is Constance's...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The old battle tactics were useless for the U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, who were fighting a guerrilla war on foreign soil for the first time in American history.With the depth and honesty of Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, SEAL Warrior sheds light on the operations of the SEAL teams in Vietnam and shows how the SEALs laid the foundation for the modern guerrilla warfare that is used today. It also documents how one young American survived, fought, and grew...
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On August 6, 2011--three months after members of Navy SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden--Taliban forces took down a United States helicopter, call sign "Extortion 17." The attack killed the Air National guard crew, seven unidentified members of the Afghan military, and seventeen members of Navy SEAL Team Six--warrior brothers from the same Team that had killed Osama Bin Laden just ninety days prior. Don Brown, a former U.S. Navy JAG officer stationed...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Diversion Books edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations, portraits, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Dubbins chronicles the story of the pioneering Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) and George Morgan, one of its last surviving members, as they cleared a path for Allied invasion forces and helped win World War II.
Morgan was just a wiry, 17-year-old lifeguard from New Jersey when he joined the Navy's new combat demolition unit, tasked to blow up enemy/coastal defenses ahead of landings by Allied forces. His first assignment: Omaha Beach on D-Day....
12) Zero dark thirty
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 157 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.
Publisher
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Despite the attention paid to the U.S. Navy SEALS (Sea, Air and Land) since their daring takedown of Osama bin Laden, few know the story of how the first U.S. Navy frogmen became the renowned warriors of today. Navy SEALs - Their Untold Story details their fascinating transformation and the people who made this story happen. Discover how these clandestine commandoes morphed with evolving threats from Hitler to bin Laden. The Navy's first special...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016].
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Who is Phil Bucklew? Why is World War II so important to SEAL history? This unique timeline of the US Navy SEAL missions seizes the courage and drama these soldiers experienced. Dive in and follow along to learn more!" --
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 358 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping account, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career, which included his involvement in attempts to rescue "Lone Survivor" Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and which culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. In these pages,...
Author
Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Navy SEALs are, for most Americans, the ultimate heroes. Their 2011 killing of Osama Bin Laden was celebrated as a victory in the War on Terror. Former SEALs rake in thousands of dollars as leadership consultants for American corporations. And young men who want to join the military dream of serving in their elite ranks. But as recent revelations, like the uproar around former SEAL Eddie Gallagher, have shown, the SEALs have lost their bearings....
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 626 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A former Navy SEAL chronicles the history of the special operations unit, from their beginnings as unarmed World War II frogmen to their rise to American's first permanent commando force, deployed on counterterrorism and capture-kill missions.
How did the US Navythe branch of the US military tasked with patrolling the oceansever manage to produce a unit of raiders trained to operate on land? And how, against all odds, did that unit become one of...
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