Operation Anaconda: America's First Major Battle in Afghanistan [With CD (Audio)]

by Lester W. Grau and Dodge Billingsley

Long before it became "Obama's War," the long-running conflict in Afghanistan was launched by President George W. Bush in retaliation for the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Only a few months later, Operation Anaconda sent American-led coalition forces into their most intensely brutal confrontation with Al Qaeda and their Taliban hosts in the Shar-i Kot Valley near the Pakistan border. The result was an unexpected set piece of conventional fighting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700618015
• ISBN13: 9780700618019
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"