| Description |
xiii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes biographical references (pages [375]-376) |
| Contents |
Introduction: It doesn't get better -- Part I: The road to Nuristan -- Loss -- Stacked -- Keating -- Inside the fishbowl -- Everybody dies -- Part II: Going cyclic -- "Let's go kill some people" -- Heavy contact -- Combat Kirk -- Luck -- Tunnel vision -- Part III: Overrun -- The only gun left in the fight -- "Charlie in the wire" -- The Alamo position -- Light 'em up -- Part IV: Taking the bitch back -- Launch out -- Not gonna make it -- Ox and Finch -- Alive! -- The bone -- Part V: Saving Stephan Mace -- "Go get it done" -- Mustering the dead -- Conflagration -- Farewell to Keating -- Trailing fires -- Epilogue -- In memoriam. |
| Summary |
An account of the horrendous October 2009 attack on the American Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan, told in a frank, engaging vernacular by the staff sergeant and Medal of Honor winner. Romesha ably captures the daily dangers faced by these courageous American soldiers in Afghanistan.-- adapted from Kirkus reviews. |
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Romesha, Clinton.
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Taliban.
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Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
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Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
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| ISBN |
9780525955054 (hardcover) : $28.00 |
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0525955054 (hardcover) : $28.00 |
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