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Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan
WilliamMorrow
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
374 pages
ISBN: 0062066390
EAN: 9780062066398
Kindle: B005LC0S7W
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Non-Fiction Biography
In combat, men measure up. Or don't. There are no second
chances. In this vivid account of the U.S. Army's legendary 10th
Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of
Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell shares an action-packed
and highly emotional true story of triumph, tragedy, and the
extraordinary bonds forged in battle. At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell
was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon—a
unit that came to be known as the Outlaws—and was tasked
with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain
valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. Parnell and his
men assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of
civilians, but in May 2006 what started out as a routine
patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became
a brutal ambush. Barely surviving the attack, Parnell's men
now realized that they faced the most professional and
seasoned force of light infantry the U.S. Army had
encountered since the end of World War II. What followed was sixteen months of close combat, over the
course of which the platoon became Parnell's family: from
Staff Sergeant Greg Greeson, the wise, chain-smoking veteran
who never lost his cool; to Specialist Robert Pinholt, a
buttoned-down conservative with the heart of a warrior and
the mind of an economist; to Staff Sergeant Phil Baldwin,
the platoon's voice of calm and reason, a man who sacrificed
everything following the events of 9/11—career, home,
financial stability—to serve his country. But the cost of
battle was high for these men: Over 80 percent were wounded
in action, putting their casualty rate among the highest
since Gettysburg, and not all of them made it home. A searing and unforgettable story of friendship in battle,
Outlaw Platoon brings to life the intensity and raw emotion
of those sixteen months, showing how the fight reshaped the
lives of Parnell and his men and how the love and faith they
found in one another ultimately kept them alive.
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