Research Catalog

Title

• Into the fire : a firsthand account of the most extraordinary battle in the Afghan War / Dakota Meyer and Bing West.

Author

Meyer, Dakota, 1988-

Publication

New York : Random House, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

West, Francis J.

Description

xi. 239 p., [8] p. of plates. : col. ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

A Medal of Honor-awarded Marine sniper shares the controversy-marked story of his heroic contributions during a 2009 Taliban ambush during which he saved a company of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors, a victory that compelled him to disobey orders and assume command without reinforcements or artillery support.

Subject

• Afghan War, 2001-2021 > Personal narratives, American
• Ganjgal, Battle of, Ganjgal, Afghanistan, 2009
• Meyer, Dakota, 1988-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Along the Afghan-Pakistan border -- Finish the game -- The Marine years -- Monti -- Advising -- Coming together -- Out of the smoke -- Ganjigal -- Into the valley -- Paralysis -- Lost -- Into the fire -- Into the wash -- Primal -- Team Monti -- Dab Khar -- Cheerleaders -- Old haunts -- All in -- Epilogue / by Bing West.

ISBN

• 9780812993400
• 0812993403
• 9780679645443 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 0679645446 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2012026889

OCLC

778631927

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library