El pelotón rojo. Doce horas en el infierno

Author: Clinton Romesha
- Non-Fiction
- Crítica
- ISBN: 9786077476757
- Release Date: 07-09-2019

Synopsis

The only comprehensive, firsthand account of the fourteen-hour firefight at the Battle of Keating by Medal of Honor recipient Clinton Romesha, for readers of Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden and Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell.
 
"'It doesn't get better.' To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential truth, about being stuck at an outpost whose strategic and tactical vulnerabilities were so glaringly obvious to every soldier who had ever set foot in that place that the name itself-Keating-had become a kind of backhanded joke."
 
In 2009, Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black Knight Troop were preparing to shut down Command Outpost (COP) Keating, the most remote and inaccessible in a string of bases built by the US military in Nuristan and Kunar in the hope of preventing Taliban insurgents from moving freely back and forth between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Three years after its construction, the army was finally ready to concede what the men on the ground had known immediately: it was simply too isolated and too dangerous to defend. 

On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating. The ensuing fourteen-hour battle-and eventual victory-cost eight men their lives. 
 
Red Platoon is the riveting firsthand account of the Battle of Keating, told by Romesha, who spearheaded both the defense of the outpost and the counterattack that drove the Taliban back beyond the wire and received the Medal of Honor for his actions. 

"A vitally important story that needs to be understood by the public, and I cannot imagine an account that does it better justice that Romesha's."-Sebastian Junger, journalist and author of The Perfect Storm

"Red Platoon is sure to become a classic of the genre."-Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice

En 2009, Clinton Romesha, de la sección Red Platoon, y el resto de la tropa Black Knight se preparaban para cerrar el Comando Outpost (COP) Keating, el más remoto e inaccesible de una serie de bases militares construidas por el ejército estadounidense en Nuristán y Kunar, con la esperanza de impedir que los insurgentes talibanes se moviesen libremente entre Afganistán y Pakistán. Keating se encontraba aislado y era demasiado difícil de defender. El 3 de octubre de 2009, 300 talibanes atacaron Keating con todos los recursos de que disponían. La batalla, que duró doce horas y es recordada como uno de los con ictos más sangrientos de la guerra de Afganistán, acabó con la victoria del ejército estadounidense, pero también costó las vidas de ocho soldados y veintidós heridos.El pelotón rojoes el fascinante relato en primera persona de la batalla de Kamdesh, narrada por Clinton Romesha, quien encabezó la defensa del puesto avanzado y el contraataque que hizo retroceder a los talibanes. Su comportamiento ejemplar le valió la Medalla de Honor del ejército estadounidense, de entre las doce que se concedieron a personalidades destacadas de las guerras de Afganistán e Irak.  AISLADOS, EN DESVENTAJA, PERO NUNCA VENCIDOS.


 

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