Thursday, 5 April 2018

Afghanistan War Books That Tell The Real Story

By Donald Fisher


Into The Fire is a book that was written by Dakota Meyer. In it, he describes how a group of Afghan soldiers were brutally ambushed by insurgents of the Taliban in the autumn of 2009. Meyer defied orders to stay with the vehicles, and instead led a series of attacks and rescued as many as he could. This is one of the many Afghanistan war books that goes beyond the soldier's time at war.

For a book that is full of action and raw emotion, look no further than Outlaw Platoon. In this book, which has been called the Band of Brothers of our time, Sean Parnell tells the story of one of the most difficult fights that happened in this country. The setting of this story is in the Afghan mountains in an area called Hindu Kesh, where the 10th Mountain Division was forced into a very hard fight that went on almost continuously for sixteen months.

Pat Tillman is someone who many people know as a legend, but there is a much more human story behind the legend that is there to be told. That is what Jon Krakauer wrote about in Where Men Win Glory, which goes beyond Pat throwing away an NFL contract to be in the Army. He died in combat, but his story will live on.

As a New York Times foreign correspondent, Dexter Filkins saw a lot of things over the course of his career that filled in a detailed perspective of the conflict in this country. He witnessed the Taliban's rise, 9/11, the Afghan wars, and he also saw and reported on Iraq. He put all of his experience into the book The Forever War, which has a wealth of information and memorable stories.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll wrote Ghost Wars, which goes into detail about some of the covert wars that were going on in this country leading up to the September 11th attack. According to his book, this attack was directly related to these covert wars because it caused the Islamic militancy that then occurred. This book also explores why bin Laden's capture took so long.

There are not many stories as desperate and bloody as the Chosen Few by Greg Zoroya. This is the tale of a group of paratroopers who found themselves in a much different fight than they expected. Instead of winning over some mountain people and exploring the wilderness, they were fighting for their lives with no way of escaping.

Lynn Vincent and Captain Roger Hill both teamed up to tell a story that they claim the Army would not want people to see. The book called Dog Company sheds a negative light on the way the US Army treats its own soldiers. Hill reveals how he had to decide whether to disobey orders or let his comrades be killed.

Lions of Kandahar was written by Major Rusty Bradley and Kevin Maurer. The battle that is described is one of the most critical, when the South was slipping away. In Rusty's third tour of duty, he gives an inside account of Operation Medusa that stopped the Taliban from reclaiming the critical Kandahar Province.




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