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An Untold Story of American Valor
Little, Brown & Company
November 2012
On Sale: November 13, 2012
688 pages
ISBN: 0316185396
EAN: 9780316185394
Kindle: B0076DFC3O
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Non-Fiction
At 6:00 a.m. on the morning of October 3, 2009, Combat
Outpost Keating was viciously attacked by Taliban
insurgents. The 53 U.S. troops, having been stationed at the
bottom of three steep mountains, were severely outmanned by
nearly 400 Taliban fighters. Though the Americans ultimately
prevailed, their casualties made it one of the war's
deadliest battles for U.S. forces. And after more than three
years in that dangerous and vulnerable valley a mere 14
miles from the Pakistan border, the U.S. abandoned and
bombed the camp. A Pentagon investigation later concluded
that there was no reason for Outpost Keating to have been
there in the first place. THE OUTPOST is a tour de force of investigative journalism.
Jake Tapper exposes the origins of this tragic and
confounding story, exploring the history of the camp and
detailing 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.
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