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Manhunt

By Bergen, Peter L

Manhunt

By Bergen, Peter L

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NOW AN HBO DOCUMENTARY In Manhunt, Peter Bergen delivers a taut yet panoramic account of the pursuit and killing of Osama bin Laden. Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly close to capturing him, and of the fugitive leader's attempts to find a secure hiding place. As the only journalist to gain access to bin Laden's Abbottabad compound before the Pakistani government demolished it, Bergen paints a vivid picture of bin Laden's grim, Spartan life in hiding and his struggle to maintain control of al-Qaeda. Half a world away, Bergen takes us inside the Situation Room, where President Obama considers the courses of action presented by his war council and receives conflicting advice from his top advisors before deciding to risk the raid that would change history--and then inside the Joint Special Ops Command, whose "secret warriors," the SEALs, would execute Operation Neptune Spear. From the moment two Black Hawks take off from Afghanistan until bin Laden utters his last words, Manhunt reads like a thriller.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2013-04-30
Publication Date:
2013-04-30
Publisher:
Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0307955885
ISBN13:
9780307955883
Weight:
311 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
27 cm
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