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The Chosen Few - A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan (Paperback)
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The Chosen Few - A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan (Paperback)
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The story of one of the Afghanistan war's most decorated units and
their fifteen-month ordeal, culminating in the Battle of Wanat, the
deadliest battle of the war A single company of US paratroopers -
calling themselves the "Chosen Few" - arrived in eastern
Afghanistan in late 2007 hoping to win the hearts and minds of the
remote mountain people and extend the Afghan government's reach
into this wilderness. Instead, they spent the next fifteen months
in a desperate struggle, living under almost continuous attack,
forced into a slow and grinding withdrawal, and always outnumbered
by Taliban fighters descending on them from all sides. Month after
month, rocket-propelled grenades, rockets, and machine-gun fire
poured down on the isolated and exposed paratroopers as America's
focus and military resources shifted to Iraq. Just weeks before the
paratroopers were to go home, they faced their last - and toughest
- fight. Near the village of Wanat in Nuristan province, an
estimated three hundred enemy fighters surrounded about fifty of
the Chosen Few and others defending a partially finished combat
base. Nine died and more than two dozen were wounded that day in
July 2008, making it arguably the bloodiest battle of the war in
Afghanistan. The Chosen Few would return home tempered by war. Two
among them would receive the Medal of Honor. All of them would be
forever changed.
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