Red Platoon : a true story of American valor / Clinton Romesha.

Author: Romesha, Clinton, author.

Imprint:New York : Dutton, 2016.

Descriptionxiii, 378 pages : ills, maps ; 24 cm

Note: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.

Note:A first-hand account of the thirteen-hour firefight at Command Outpost Keating describes the events of the October 3, 2009 attack and how the sacrifices of heroic men raised questions about whether the strategically vulnerable outpost should ever have been built.

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