Navy SEALs: Mission at the Caves

by Brandon Webb, Thea Feldman

Overview

In Navy SEALs: Mission at the Caves, the first book in the Special Operations Files series, highly decorated former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb tells his incredible true story.

Brandon Webb is a Navy SEAL on a mission with his platoon. As the SEALs explore a network of caves in Afghanistan, they encounter enemy soldiers. Outnumbered and with few resources at their disposal, Brandon and his team must call on their training to complete their operation—and to stay alive.

Packed with photos and maps for context, the Special Operations Files series provides insight into the most elite forces in the U.S. military. These uniquely trained soldiers do what no one else can: employ high-tech weaponry and old-fashioned bravery to get the job done!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250194275
Publisher:	Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Publication date:	08/28/2018
Series:	Special Operations Files , #1
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.50(d)
Lexile:	640L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Brandon Webb is a former U.S. Navy SEAL. He is the author of The Making of a Navy SEAL and the New York Times bestseller The Red Circle.

Thea Feldman has written many popular children’s books, including Navy SEAL Dogs, a YA adaptation of the bestselling Trident K9 Warriors by Mike Ritland with Gary Brozek. She lives in New York City.

Editorial Reviews

2018-06-25
The self-told story of a former U.S. Navy SEAL.Divided into 11 chapters (six autobiographical followed by five fictionalized accounts of actual Navy SEAL missions), the book traces the footsteps of author Webb, a highly decorated U.S. Navy SEAL, from his summer jobs as a teenager aboard dive boats in Ventura, California, and the tumultuous relationship he shared with his father to his graduation from the Navy sniper school and the subsequent missions in which he served in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. The act of war—shooting, bombing, spotting "terrorists"—is made to sound commonplace and is depicted very matter-of-factly, ad nauseam. The repetitive use of "terrorists" to describe enemy combatants in a country invaded by the United States is both inaccurate and reductive. Such statements as "the local people were good people" do nothing to mitigate this, and unsurprisingly, the nearly two-decades-long catastrophe that has been U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq goes unaddressed. Written, oddly, in the third person, presumably to fit the style of other books in the series, the narrative comes across as vainglorious and exceedingly self-serving, with the resulting haughtiness detracting from an authentic and credible depiction of Navy SEAL life.Save your money. (Memoir/fiction. 8-12)

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