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Not a Good Day to Die

By Sean Naylor

Not a Good Day to Die Memories

Not a Good Day to Die

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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
462
Release Date:
2006-03-07
Publication Date:
2006-03-07
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0425207870
ISBN13:
9780425207871
Weight:
615 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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