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The outpost : an untold story of American valor / Jake Tapper. |
| Authors: | Tapper, Jake. |
| Call number: | 958.1047 TAP |
| Publisher: | New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012. |
| Publication date: | 2012. |
| Subject: |
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009.
Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region) Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan -- Nuristan (Region) Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan) Taliban. |
| Title: | The outpost : an untold story of American valor / Jake Tapper. |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Physical description: | xi, 673 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Notes: | Maps on lining papers. |
| Summary note: | 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. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 625-650) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780316185394 (hbk.) 0316185396 (hbk.) |
| LCCN: | 2012023094 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1406028 |
| Bib No.: | 1406028 |