If you loved American Sniper you will love Not a Good Day to Die:
The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. Award-winning journalist
Sean Naylor, an eyewitness to the action, vividly portrays the
fight for Afghanistan's most hostile battleground. At dawn on March
2, 2002, the first major battle of the 21st Century began. Over 200
soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew
into Afghanistan's Shahikot valley - and into the mouth of a
buzz-saw. They were about to pay a bloody price for strategic,
higher-level miscalculations that underestimated the enemy's
strength and willingness to fight. After the attacks of September
11, 2001, Coalition forces quickly toppled the Taliban regime from
the seat of government. But, believing the war to be all but over,
the Pentagon and US Central Command refused to commit the forces
required to achieve total victory in Afghanistan. Instead, they
delegated responsibility for fighting the war's biggest battle to a
tangle of untested units thrown together at the last moment. Then
the world watched as Anaconda seemed to unravel. Denied the extra
infantry, artillery and close air support with which they trained
to go to war, the soldiers of this airborne assault fought for
survival in brutal high-altitude combat. Backed up by a small, but
crucial, team of special forces, they were all that stood between
the Coalition and a military disaster. Perfect for fans of Black
Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty, Chris Ryan, and Andy McNab. About the
author: Sean Naylor is a senior writer for the Army Times. He has
covered the Afghan mujahideen's war against the Soviets, and
American military operations in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia,
Afghanistan, and Iraq. Named one of the 22 "unsung" influential
print reporters in Washington by American Journalism Review in May
2002, he earned the White House Correspondents' Association's
prestigious Edgar A. Poe Award for his coverage of Operation
Anaconda.
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