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Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

Author:  Sean Naylor

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Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

English

ISBN: 1101204613

EAN: 9781101204610

Category: History / Military / United States

Publisher: Berkley

Release Date: 03/01/2005

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis:

Award-winning combat reporter Sean Naylor reveals how close American forces came to disaster in Afghanistan against Al Qaida—after easily defeating the ragtag Taliban that had sheltered the terrorist organization behind the 9/11 attacks.

At dawn on March 2, 2002, over two hundred soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into the mouth of a buzz saw in Afghanistan's Shahikot Valley. Believing the war all but over, U.S. military leaders refused to commit the extra infantry, artillery, and attack helicopters required to fight the war's biggest battle— a missed opportunity to crush hundreds of Al Qaida's fighters and some of its most senior leaders.

Eyewitness Naylor vividly portrays the heroism of the young, untested soldiers, the fanaticism of their ferocious enemy, the mistakes that led to a hellish mountaintop firefight, and how thirteen American commandos embodied "Patton's three principles of war"—audacity, audacity, and audacity—by creeping unseen over frozen mountains into the heart of an enemy stronghold to prevent a U.S. military catastrophe.

Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda

Illustrated: No

Format: eBook - EPUB

Pages: 448