Eric Blehm
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xii, 335 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
Traces the life and disappearance of park ranger James Randall Morgenson in an account that covers his devotion to wilderness protection, the toll taken on his psyche by twenty-eight summers of isolation, and questions surrounding his death.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
Relates the story of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Roy Benavidez's nearly suicidal rescue mission that saved eight lives and ultimately earned him a Congressional Medal of Honor.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
375 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
The author exposes the realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan in this chronicle of one of the most important military mission in the early days of the Global War on Terror--ODA 574--wherein a Special Forces team infiltrated the mountains of southern Afghanistan, fomented a tribal revolt, and forced the Taliban to surrender.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
viii, 341 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of The Last Season and Fearless, comes an extraordinary new book in the vein of Into the Wild, the story of the legendary snowboarder Craig Kelly and his death in the 2003 Durrand Glacier Avalanche-a devastating and controversial tragedy that claimed the lives of seven people. On January 20, 2003, a thunderous crack rang out and a 100-foot-wide tide of snow barreled down the Northern Selkirk Mountains in British...