The Chosen Few
by Gregg Zoroya
"A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan"
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The Chosen Few Book Details
War:
War in Afghanistan
Perspective:
Paratroopers
Military Unit:
US Army
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Asia
Published Date:
2018
ISBN13:
9780306903182
The Chosen Few Book Description
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 with the Taliban that culminated in the Battle of Wanat--the war's deadliest conflict. The Chosen Few returned home tempered by war, and forever changed by the experience.