Banned Books Awareness: “No Easy Day”

It is perhaps the most provocative foreign policy issue of our time- the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, the man responsible for the largest foreign attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.

Like Pearl Harbor, which resulted in the United States officially entering World War II, the events of September 11th would spark two foreign wars as part of the largest manhunt in world history.

Imagine if there were a first-hand account of the events that transpired in Hitler’s bunker. What secrets of the war would or could have been revealed? Imagine if Twitter had been as prolific in the 1940s as it is today. We have become accustomed to an overload of immediate information as historical events unfold, debating them in the public forum before they have even concluded, or their total impact made clear.

Written under the pseudonym Mark Owen, and co-authored by Kevin Maurer, No Easy Day is a first-person narrative of the planning and carrying out of the raid that would finalize in the death of Osama Bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan by one of the Navy SEALS who was part of one of the most touted, yet controversial, military missions in history.

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http://bbark.deepforestproductions.com/column/2012/09/09/banned-books-awareness-no-easy-day/

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