Title:
Red Platoon : a true story of American valor / Clinton Romesha, Medal of Honor recipient.
ISBN:
9780525955054
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Publication Information:
New York, New York : Dutton, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
xiii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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:
The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the thirteen hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of "Black Hawk Down" by Mark Bowden and "Lone Survivor" by Marcus Luttrell. In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost Keating in Afghanistan. After years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. The ensuing 14-hour battle - and eventual victory - cost 8 men their lives.
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OCLC Number:
ocn933729394
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