Red Platoon a true story of American valor
(Large Print)
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Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, [2016].
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Physical Desc
576 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Downtown Reno Library - Adult Nonfiction - Large Print Shelf
LP 958.1047 ROMESH
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LP 958.1047 ROMESH
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Afghan War, 2001- -- Regimental histories -- United States.
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
Courage -- Afghanistan.
Heroes -- United States -- Biography.
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009 -- Personal narratives, American.
Large print books
Medal of Honor -- Biography
Romesha, Clinton.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
Courage -- Afghanistan.
Heroes -- United States -- Biography.
Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009 -- Personal narratives, American.
Large print books
Medal of Honor -- Biography
Romesha, Clinton.
Soldiers -- United States -- Biography
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Published
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, [2016].
Format
Large Print
Edition
Center Point large print edition.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Unabridged.
General Note
Originally published: New York : Dutton/Penguin Random House, 2016.
Description
"The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen-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; ''It doesn't get better.' To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about being stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself--Keating--had become a kind of backhanded joke.' In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the U.S. military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Three years after its construction, the army was finally ready to concede what the men on the ground had known immediately: it was simply too isolated and too dangerous to defend. On October 3, 2009, 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. Red Platoon is the riveting first-hand account of the Battle of Keating, told by Romesha, who spearheaded both the defense of the outpost and the counter-attack that drove the Taliban back beyond the wire, and received the Medal of Honor for his actions"--From Penguin Random House website.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Romesha, C. (2016). Red Platoon: a true story of American valor (Center Point large print edition.). Center Point Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Romesha, Clinton. 2016. Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor. Center Point Large Print.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Romesha, Clinton. Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor Center Point Large Print, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Romesha, Clinton. Red Platoon: A True Story of American Valor Center Point large print edition., Center Point Large Print, 2016.
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