Picked up this book today at the gun show and have gotten to chapter 6 so far. I really like it so far and will prolly have it done by late next week. Has anyone else read this book and whats your take on it?
Also, I hardly see threads posted about books. I really enjoy reading about firsthand accounts of soliders in all the wars. Kind of gives me a idea on how they were actually fought besides what the history books tell. So whats your favorite military/war book?

My Dad and the stories he used to tell us of his adventures during both the second world war and the Korean conflict. As a youngster I used to hang on his every word. I miss my Dad.

Good read. Read all but couple of chapters in one 8 security gig shift. Hard to put down.

I thought it was a great book. There were lots of stories in the book that you could sit and think on for a while. Perhaps one of the most striking was that as they were stacked up outside Bin Ladens building he said the atmosphere was pretty calm and laid back...just like one of the thousands of training exercises he'd done in the past. It reinforced to me the old adage that the more you sweat in peace the less you bleed in war...and that you always revert to your training. These guys had done this type of thing so much that the actual execution of it was not difficult. Heck he said guys were sleeping in the helo's on the way in to do the hit.

LOTS of good stuff in the book.

When you're done with No Easy Day, pick up The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden by Mark Bowman, the author of Black Hawk Down.

Together they paint a good picture.

One element Bowman doesn't mention, or didn't know about, was the central role played by a CIA woman who had been tracking bin Laden for years. No Easy Day's author Mark Owen compliments her work.

In the movie Zero Dark Thirty she is the central character and is played by Jessica Chastain.

In a loose insert to Bowman's book, it is indicated he will reconsider the details of how bin Laden exactly was shot.

I read No Easy Day and several other SEAL books. Frankly I can't see what this guy reveiled that the others didn't.

But that's not the question.

My favorite all time war book was/is ONCE AN EAGLE, by Anton Myrer. Fiction but shows conflicts in leadership styles. From the 1916 Mexican expidition to Vietnam.

On the required reading list at West Point.

This book and Lone Survivor are two of my favorite books. Both go into detail of the hard training and the dedication of each member of the SEALS.

'Shots Fired in Anger' by Lt.Col John George.

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"No Easy Day" was a "can't put it down" book for me. I liked the way it was written. "Lone Survivor" was good. Loved "Unbroken".