Lone Survivor

Title: Lone Survivor: The eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10
Author: Marcus Luttrell
Genre: Memoir
Pages: 464
Rating (out of 5 stars): ***
Reviewed by: Ben
Description: Tells the story of how Luttrell became a Navy SEAL and was eventually deployed in Afghanistan.  While out on patrol, his team was attacked by the Taliban.  Miraculously, Luttrell survived the ordeal.
Thoughts: This is such an amazing story that you can't not enjoy reading it.  Luttrell spends considerable space writing about his SEAL training, and I actually enjoyed that as much as the story.  It really gives you an insight into who the SEALs are and how they are trained to think and act.  The story itself is amazing, sad, and patriotic all at once.  My only complaint with the book is that Luttrell goes off on random diatribes about a few issues (such as the liberal media) here and there, and that kind of detracted from the story.  Not that he doesn't have a right to express that, but it comes off just sounding like a rant and it left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.  All in all, though, I enjoyed the book and am glad that I read it.
Disclaimer:  Like most military books, the language gets salty at times, and there is plenty of wartime violence and gore as well.  However, I'd say that this is actually cleaner than many war books that I've read.