Saturday 17 March 2018

Some Great Afghanistan War Books

By Donald Fisher


Dakota Meyer is a hero who defied orders and risked his own life to save the lives of many others. He tells his amazing story in one of the most thrilling Afghanistan war books, Into The Fire, in which Taliban insurgents viciously ambushed him and many of his comrades. Instead of waiting by the vehicles as he was commanded to, he led a barrage of attacks that left the enemy stunted and rescued many of his comrades from death.

For a book that is full of action and raw emotion, look no further than Outlaw Platoon. In this book, which has been called the Band of Brothers of our time, Sean Parnell tells the story of one of the most difficult fights that happened in this country. The setting of this story is in the Afghan mountains in an area called Hindu Kesh, where the 10th Mountain Division was forced into a very hard fight that went on almost continuously for sixteen months.

Where Men Win Glory is a story of bravery and sacrifice, the center of the tale being NFL icon Pat Tillman. Jon Krakauer writes about how Pat decided to turn down his NFL contract, a multimillion-dollar deal, and instead chose to serve his country in the Army. While he died a legend, the true story of his life documented here is a much more human tale.

As a New York Times foreign correspondent, Dexter Filkins saw a lot of things over the course of his career that filled in a detailed perspective of the conflict in this country. He witnessed the Taliban's rise, 9/11, the Afghan wars, and he also saw and reported on Iraq. He put all of his experience into the book The Forever War, which has a wealth of information and memorable stories.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll wrote Ghost Wars, which goes into detail about some of the covert wars that were going on in this country leading up to the September 11th attack. According to his book, this attack was directly related to these covert wars because it caused the Islamic militancy that then occurred. This book also explores why bin Laden's capture took so long.

The Chosen Few is a paratroopers' tale that did not go the way anyone going into it expected. Greg Zoroya writes about this group of troopers who were expecting to explore the wilderness, and only thinking they would come across mountain people who they hoped would be peaceful. Instead, they found themselves under constant attack and spent the rest of their time trying to withdraw from a deadly fight.

For a controversial tale that not everyone will want to see, Dog Company is a book that has many negative claims about how the Army treats their own soldiers. This book was written by Lynn Vincent and Captain Roger Hill, and they both believe that spies and enemy soldiers are treated better than their own. Captain Hill describes a time that he had to defy orders just to prevent his friends from being killed.

Lions of Kandahar was written by Major Rusty Bradley and Kevin Maurer. The battle that is described is one of the most critical, when the South was slipping away. In Rusty's third tour of duty, he gives an inside account of Operation Medusa that stopped the Taliban from reclaiming the critical Kandahar Province.




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