Hersh, Seymour M

Summary: In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama’s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Verso Books 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 HER

Bowden, Mark

Summary: Recounts the hunt for and defeat of Osama bin Laden, drawing on unprecedented access to primary sources to trace how key decisions were made, revealing events from the perspectives of an adept President Obama and an increasingly despondent bin Laden.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.325 BOW

Weisman, John.

Summary: Presents a fictionalized re-telling of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden based on real events, from political wrangling in Washington D.C., through the hard work and meticulous planning by the intelligence community, to the dramatic raid by SEAL Team 6 that finally took down their target.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2011

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O'Neill, Robert

Summary: Stirringly evocative, thought-provoking, and often jaw-dropping, The Operator ranges across SEAL Team Operator Robert O’Neill’s awe-inspiring four-hundred-mission career that included his involvement in attempts to rescue “Lone Survivor” Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips and culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world’s most wanted...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 O'NEILL, ROBERT ONE

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Summary: Chronicles the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden following the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of Navy SEAL Team 6.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZER

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ZER RATED R

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Elish, Dan

Summary: On-point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the story of the raid that captured bin Laden to life. Kids will feel as though they are in the room with President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the others in the cabinet who called for and monitored the raid. Primary source quotations make the event feel immediate, and photographs by the White House...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2019

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Wallace, Chris

Summary: Chronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 WAL