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03268aam a2200589Ii 4500 001 EB09AB02F5A711E6B45EFBACDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230913010647 008 150720t20172017maubfo e 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2016954213 020 $a 0306824833 020 $a 9780306824838 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCQ $e rda $d ZGX $d SKYRV $d SILO 050 4 $a DS 082 04 $a 958 100 1 $a Zoroya, Gregg, $e author. 245 14 $a The chosen few : $b a company of paratroopers and its heroic struggle to survive in the mountains of Afghanistan / $c Gregg Zoroya. 250 $a First Da Capo Press edition. 264 1 $a Boston, MA : $b Da Capo Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xii, 370 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b maps, photographs ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a Falling from the skies -- Eager for war -- Good morning, Afghanistan -- Enemy inside the wire -- Phillips fights back -- Giving ground -- Ambush--my friends are my enemies -- A radio man takes charge -- "It might be dangerous" -- Under siege -- Combat Outpost Kahler -- "Pray to Jesus" -- Coming home. 520 $a "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. When the Battle of Wanat ended, those who survived came home to a different kind of victory-not of enemies destroyed or cities captured but of acclaim as one of the most decorated fighting units in America's modern wars. Two among them would receive the Medal of Honor for valor in combat. All of them would be forever changed."--Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001- $x Commando operations $z United States. 650 0 $a Afghan War, 2001- $v Personal narratives, American. 650 0 $a Parachute troops $v Biography. 651 0 $a United States $x Parachute troops. $x Parachute troops. 655 7 $a Personal Narratives. $2 lcgft 941 $a 22 952 $l DPPE403 $d 20240611013201.0 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305014940.0 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20230128010709.0 952 $l BPPB851 $d 20220419011347.0 952 $l PWAX296 $d 20220404110258.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20200529011704.0 952 $l HOPC845 $d 20200310033614.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200103011327.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20191228010112.0 952 $l KCPA896 $d 20190508012116.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006103725.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720045623.0 952 $l DXPB423 $d 20180710021929.0 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20180406010636.0 952 $l VKPE334 $d 20171118064959.0 952 $l YAPC771 $d 20171115010929.0 952 $l SCPC074 $d 20170728030648.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20170607014302.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20170512010444.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170422011424.0 952 $l OCPA943 $d 20170420013054.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20170218010134.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB09AB02F5A711E6B45EFBACDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search