Red platoon
Subtitle: a true story of American valor
By: Clinton Romesha, Medal of Honor recipient
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780525955054; 9781101984338
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Counterinsurgency; Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009; Campaigns; American Personal narratives; Taliban; Afghan War, 2001-
Description: An account of the horrendous October 2009 attack on the American Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan, told in a frank, engaging vernacular by the staff sergeant and Medal of Honor winner. Romesha ably captures the daily dangers faced by these courageous American soldiers in Afghanistan.--
Notes: Various printings.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: It doesn't get better; title: Part I: The road to Nuristan; title: Loss; title: Stacked; title: Keating; title: Inside the fishbowl; title: Everybody dies; title: Part II: Going cyclic; title: "Let's go kill some people"; title: Heavy contact; title: Combat Kirk; title: Luck; title: Tunnel vision; title: Part III: Overrun; title: The only gun left in the fight; title: "Charlie in the wire"; title: The Alamo position; title: Light 'em up; title: Part IV: Taking the bitch back; title: Launch out; title: Not gonna make it; title: Ox and Finch; title: Alive!; title: The bone; title: Part V: Saving Stephan Mace; title: "Go get it done"; title: Mustering the dead; title: Conflagration; title: Farewell to Keating; title: Trailing fires; title: Epilogue; title: In memoriam.