| Authors: |
Tapper, Jake.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region)
Taliban.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012. |
| Description: |
xi, 673 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780316185394 (hbk.) 0316185396 (hbk.) |
| Notes: |
Map on lining papers. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| 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. |