Axe
- ISBN-10
- 0062324950
- ISBN-13
- 9780062324955
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-01-28
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Author
- Jeffrey Axelson
Description
Matt and Jeffrey Axelson had been inseparable all their lives. Only two-and-a-half years apart, they shared almost everything. So when Jeffrey was injured while training to become a SEAL, Matt decided he would take over and become the SEAL in the family. News accounts tell us that Matthew G. Axelson died on June 28, 2005, just three days after his twenty-ninth birthday, during a firefight with a large force of Taliban soldiers in the mountainous, nearly inaccessible Hindu Kush region of eastern Afghanistan. They tell us that in Operation Red Wings a four-man team of SEALs, including Matt, had been inserted to gather intelligence and, if possible, kill a fearsome Taliban commander. And they tell us that when the four were discovered by the Taliban, these men faced down roughly two hundred enemy soldiers. This is the story that Matthew Luttrell told in his bestselling book Lone Survivor. It is a story of courage, resilience, ingenuity and heroism. It is a story that honors the four. But that is not the story Jeffrey will tell. In Axe: A Brother's Search for an American Warrior, Jeffrey recounts his brother's life in the years before that firefight, sharing the many ways in which an ordinary American kid became an extraordinary American hero. He'll also share the events of the twelve days following the firefight, and how Matt--contrary to previous accounts--did not die on the battlefield. Through his own research and the cooperation of numerous SEALS, Jeffrey has been able to piece together his brother's final days, and will show that even in death his brother directly contributed to Luttrell's survival, a warrior to the very end.
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