Details of the top secret US special forces mission to kill Osama Bin Laden are set to be revealed for the first time. A member of the Navy SEAL team has written a first-hand account of the historic assault on the terror leader’s Pakistan compound.

The author of the book — entitled No Easy Day and scheduled for release next month on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 — has left the military and uses the pseudonym Mark Owen.u00a0He describes the account as an effort to “set the record straight about one of the most important missions in US military history”.