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Author Tapper, Jake, author. Author.

Title The outpost : an untold story of American valor / Jake Tapper.

Publication Info. New York : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown, and Company, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  958.104 TAP    Check Shelf
Edition First Back Bay paperback edition.
Description xv, 683 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 633-658) and index.
Summary Jake Tapper exposes the origins of one of the Afghan War's deadliest battles for U.S. forces and details the stories of soldiers heroic and doomed, shadowed by the recklessness of their commanders in Washington, D.C. and a war built on constantly shifting sands.
Contents Book 1. "With your shield on it". Roll call: 3-71 Cav and others : Every man an Alexander ; "Major Joe Fenty, hard worker" ; Like just another day on the range ; War, fate, and wind ; "This whole thing is a bad idea" ; Maybe that's just the wind blowing the door ; Monuments to an empire's hubris ; Hill 2610 ; "This will happen to you" ; The abstract threat of terror ; The enemy gets a vote ; Matthias the Macedonian and the LMTV ; The 7-31 ; Buddy ; "Don't go down that way" -- Book 2. Two in the chest, one in the head. Roll call: 1-91 Cav and others -- Roll call: 6-4 Cav and others : "There's not going to be any ice cream" ; "Bulldog-Six, where are you?" ; Balloons ; If you're the enemy, please stand up ; "We will go to Kamdesh next" ; Chess with no rules ; After he finished washing the blood off ; What was wrong with Kaine Meshkin ; The puppies ; Pericles in Kamdesh -- Book 3. Enemy in the wire: the end of combat: Outpost Keating. Roll call: 3-61 Cav : The General's competing considerations ; The deer hunters ; Send me ; Elevator ride ; "Wish me luck" ; Get something up! ; "They've got an RPG pointed right at me" ; Taking this bitch back ; The Apaches ; The fundamentals ; Blood and embers ; The long walk down ; Saint Christopher ; Two purple hearts and just one scar.
Subject Taliban.
Taliban. (OCoLC)fst00743547
Afghan War (2001-) (OCoLC)fst01695175
Kamdesh, Battle of (Afghanistan : 2009) (OCoLC)fst01896344
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Counterinsurgency. (OCoLC)fst00881325
Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
Afghanistan -- Combat Outpost Keating. (OCoLC)fst01888352
Afghanistan -- Nūristān (Province) (OCoLC)fst01890248
Afghanistan -- Nuristan Region. (OCoLC)fst01339325
Chronological Term 2009
ISBN 031618540X
9780316185400
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