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

Tapper, Jake. (Author).

Summary:

Combat Outpost Keating: the end of the line, the U.S. military base nobody could believe had been built. Everyone who set foot there feared that a moment would arrive when the enemy would come for them. Theyknew that in sucha battle they would be vastly outnumbered and, given such odds, not all of them would be coming home alive. At 5:58 a.m. on a morning in early October, that moment came.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316185394
  • ISBN: 0316185396
  • Physical Description: xi, 673 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Maps on lining papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-650) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
"With your shield on it" -- Two in the chest, one in the head -- Enemy in the wire : the end of combat : Outpost Keating.
Subject: Taliban.
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Campaigns > Afghanistan > Nuristan (Region)
Counterinsurgency > Afghanistan > Nuristan (Region)
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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