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The outpost : an untold story of American valor / Jake Tapper.
Van Pelt Library DS371.4123.K36 T36 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tapper, Jake
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
- Counterinsurgency.
- Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan).
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Campaigns--Afghanistan--Nuristan (Region).
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Counterinsurgency--Afghanistan--Nuristan (Region).
- Taliban.
- Afghanistan--Nuristan (Region).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 673 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 625-650) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780316185394
- 0316185396
- OCLC:
- 776523654
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