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Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900 > Postwar, from 1945
In New York Times bestseller Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky
follows the members of US. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on
their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold
known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an
effort to break the Taliban's grip on the Valley. What started out
as a routine mission changed when two 82nd Airborne Paratroopers
tragically drowned in the Bala Murghab River while trying to
retrieve vital supplies from an air drop gone wrong. In that
moment, the focus and purpose of the friendly forces at Forward
Operating Base Todd was forever altered as a massive clearing
operation was initiated to break the Taliban's stranglehold on the
valley and recover the bodies. From close quarters firefights in
Afghan villages to capturing key terrain from the Taliban in the
unforgiving Afghan Winter, this intense and personal story depicts
the brave actions and sacrifices of MSOT 8222. Readers will
understand the hopelessness of being pinned down under a hail of
enemy gunfire and the quake of the earth as a 2000 lb. guided bomb
levels a fortified Taliban fighting position. A moving story of
Marine Operators doing what they do best, Level Zero Heroes brings
to life the mission of these selected few that fought side by side
in Afghanistan, in a narrative as action packed and emotional as
anything to emerge from the Special Operations community
contribution to the Afghan War.
In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for
the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill a
notorious al-Qaeda leader known to be ensconced in a Taliban
stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than
twenty-four hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs was alive.
This is the story of team leader Marcus Luttrell, the sole survivor
of Operation Redwing. Blasted unconscious by a rocket grenade,
blown over a cliff, but still armed and still breathing, Luttrell
endured four desperate days fighting the al-Qaeda assassins sent to
kill him, before finding unlikely sanctuary with a Pashtun tribe
who risked everything to protect him from the circling Taliban
killers.
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Making a Night Stalker
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The American war in Vietnam was one of the most morally contentious
events of the twentieth century, and it produced an extraordinary
outpouring of poetry. Yet the prodigious poetic voice of its
American participants remains largely unheard; the complex ethical
terrain of their experiences underexplored. In A Shadow on Our
Hearts, Adam Gilbert rectifies these oversights by utilizing the
vast body of soldier-poetry to examine the war's core moral issues.
The soldier-poets provide important insights into the ethical
dimensions of their physical and psychological surroundings before,
during, and after the war. They also offer profound perspectives on
the relationships between American soldiers and the Vietnamese
people. From firsthand experiences, they reflect on what it meant
to be witnesses, victims, and perpetrators of wartime violence. And
they advance an uncompromising vision of moral responsibility that
indicts a range of culprits for the harms caused by the conflict.
Gilbert explores the powerful and perceptive work of these
soldier-poets through the lens of morality and presents a radically
alternative, deeply personal, and ethically penetrating account of
the American war in Vietnam.
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