The Chosen Few: A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan

by Gregg Zoroya

Book Overview

The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliest

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306824833
• ISBN13: 9780306824838
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.7"