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Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 2005 McPadden joined the army in search a chance to prove to himself and his brothers in arms that he is a true leader. His job is to establish the first outpost in the Korengal, Afghanistan's deadliest valley, and his decisions and mistakes will have a permanent impact on the men he commands. During the fifteen-month tour, his unit receives numerous decorations for valor while suffering nearly 50 percent casualties, ultimately accomplishing their...
Author
Series
Wind River Valley romances volume 6
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After serving as a Navy medic, Dawson Callahan is back in the States and ready to start over. He heads for the wide open spaces of Wyoming, where he finds work as a wrangler. True, he'll mainly be wrangling chickens--and wrangling Sarah Carter's granny, who's still spry, but in need of a little caregiving. But ranch work is ranch work, and it's hard to turn down a job offer from the beautiful Sheriff Carter--especially when she deputizes him as one...
Author
Publisher
Threshold Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
A Medal of Honor recipient shares the story of his military career, recounting his deployment to Afghanistan's volatile Korengal Valley and his life-risking efforts to provide medical aid to wounded fellow soldiers during an October 2007 Taliban ambush.
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
Author
Series
Michael Parson thrillers volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A commanding officer's account of his army aviation task force's combat engagements in the Afghanistan valleys where the 9/11 attacks were conceived recounts high-risk firefights, acts of bravery and quiet moments when courageous fighter pilots prepared to reengage.
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first-person account of how a small band of Green Berets used horses and laser-guided bombs to overthrow the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan after 9/11. They landed in a dust storm so thick the chopper pilot used dead reckoning and a guess to find the ground. Welcomed by a band of heavily armed militiamen, they climbed a mountain on horseback to meet the most ferocious warlord in Asia. They plotted a war of nineteenth-century maneuvers...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel. It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward-loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters-and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they're replacing delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just off base, a Soviet-era...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carlotta Gall has reported from Afghanistan and Pakistan for almost the entire duration of the American invasion and occupation, beginning shortly after 9/11. She knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people, and how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces. Now that American troops are withdrawing, it is time to tell the full history of how we have been fighting the wrong enemy, in the...
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling a conflict that has spanned more than a decade and bridged generations, delivers a comprehensive 360-degree view of a complex war, from its swift and relentless beginnings to the eve of the U.S. pullout in 2014. Raw footage of combat, rare photos and intimate firsthand accounts capture all angles of the war from the soldiers2 viewpoint and offer an in-depth perspective never before seen by the American public.
Author
Publisher
Diversion Book
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
On June 28th, 2005, a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team under Operation Red Wings was ambushed in northeastern Afghanistan -- as depicted in the book and film Lone Survivor. A quick reaction force was dispatched. Turbine 33, carrying eight Navy SEALs and eight members of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, was struck by a rocket propelled grenade -- careening the dual rotor Chinook toward the rugged peak of Sawtalo Sar. The result...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and weather storms, in order to unlock the strongest version of yourself. Tim Kennedy has a problem; he only feels alive right before he's about to die. Kennedy, a Green Beret, decorated Army sniper, and UFC headliner, has tackled a bull with his bare hands, jumped out of airplanes, dove...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in Afghanistan, its desperate endgame, and the war's echoing legacy Elliot Ackerman left the American military ten years ago, but his time in Afghanistan and Iraq with the Marines and, later, as a CIA paramilitary officer marked him indelibly. When the Taliban began to close in on Kabul in August of 2021 and the Afghan regime began its death spiral, he found himself pulled back...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the Green Berets' "hearts and minds" counterinsurgency in Afghanistan's notorious Pech River Valley, told by the unit commander who befriended the locals while hunting for terrorists in the dangerous early days of the Afghan War.
57) Down range
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
Captain Morgan Boland is at the top of her game, as is her former lover, Navy SEAL Jake Ramsey. Then a military computer selects them to partner in a special op. The mission can't be compromised by their personal history and they have truckloads of it. But the Afghan assignment might provide the discipline they need to finally get it together, outside the bedroom, that is. A lot has happened over the two years since they last went their separate ways....
Author
Series
Snowberry Creek novels volume 1
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
As Nick Jenkins travels from the war zones of Afghanistan to his comrade's hometown, the kinds of wounds he carries with him have little to do with the shrapnel damage to his arm. Burdened with the guilt of failing to save his friend Spence, Nick is nonetheless determined to find a home for the dog that had been Spence's constant companion. Callie Redding, Spence's childhood best friend, was shocked to learn he left her his old Victorian home. She's...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
From the rigors of BUD/S training to the horrors of the battlefield, this title immerses the reader in the life of the elite warrior-medic who advances into combat with life-saving equipment in one hand and life-taking weapons in the other.
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