Mark Owen - No Hero

KEVIN MAURERhas covered special operations forces for nine years. He has been embedded with the Special Forces in Afghanistan six times, spent a month in 2006 with special operations units in East Africa, and has embedded with U.S. forces in Iraq and Haiti. He is the author of four books, including several about special operations.

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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden

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