The outpost : an untold story of American valor

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Label

The outpost : an untold story of American valor

Title remainder

an untold story of American valor

Statement of responsibility

Jake Tapper

Creator

• trueTapper, Jake

Subject

• trueUnconventional warfare -- Afghanistan
• trueInsurgency -- Afghanistan
• Kamdesh, Battle of, Afghanistan, 2009
• Taliban
• trueUnconventional warfare
• Afghan War, 2001-
• Afghan War, 2001- -- Campaigns -- Afghanistan | Nuristan (Region)
• trueAfghan War, 2001-2021
• trueAfghanistan
• trueBattles
• trueBattles -- Afghanistan
• Combat Outpost Keating (Afghanistan)
• Counterinsurgency -- Afghanistan | Nuristan (Region)
• trueInsurgency

Language

eng

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. Combat Outpost Keatin: the end of the line, the U.S. military base nobody could believe had been built

Tone

• trueSobering
• trueDramatic

Writing style

• trueCompelling
• trueAccessible
• trueGritty
• trueWell-researched

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

958.104742

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DS371.4123.K36

LC item number

T36 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

general