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The Hunt for Bin Laden

by Robin Moore · 2003 · 496 pages

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Describes how, in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Army's Fifth Special Forces Group undertook a dangerous retaliatory expedition into the the heart of Afghanistan to take on thousands of Taliban and al-Qaeda soldiers. Reprint.

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Subject
history
Genre
war and military
Themes
politicsmilitary history
Setting
21st centuryafghanistan
Audience
adult
Length
long · 496 pages

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