The outpost : an untold story of American valor
(2012)
By:
Tapper, Jake
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
958.104742/TAPPER,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2012
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xi, 673 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780316185394 (hbk.), 0316185396 (hbk.)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Maps on lining papers
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