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作       者:Parnell, Sean

出  版  社:William Morrow

出版时间:2012-02-28

字       数:50.5万

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In combat, men measure up. Or don't. There are no second chances. In this vivid account of the U.S. Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell shares an action-packed and highly emotional true story of triumph, tragedy, and the extraordinary bonds forged in battle. At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws and was tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a mountain valley along Afghanistan's eastern frontier. Parnell and his men assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians, but in May 2006 what started out as a routine patrol through the lower mountains of the Hindu Kush became a brutal ambush. Barely surviving the attack, Parnell's men now realized that they faced the most professional and seasoned force of light infantry the U.S. Army had encountered since the end of World War II. What followed was sixteen months of close combat, over the course of which the platoon became Parnell's family: from Staff Sergeant Greg Greeson, the wise, chain-smoking veteran who never lost his cool; to Specialist Robert Pinholt, a buttoned-down conservative with the heart of a warrior and the mind of an economist; to Staff Sergeant Phil Baldwin, the platoon's voice of calm and reason, a man who sacrificed everything following the events of 9/11 career, home, financial stability to serve his country. But the cost of battle was high for these men: Over 80 percent were wounded in action, putting their casualty rate among the highest since Gettysburg, and not all of them made it home. A searing and unforgettable story of friendship in battle, Outlaw Platoon brings to life the intensity and raw emotion of those sixteen months, showing how the fight reshaped the lives of Parnell and his men and how the love and faith they found in one another ultimately kept them alive.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Author’s Note

Map

Prologue

Part I: Outlaw Country

One: Game Faces

Two: Prisoner of the Divide

Three: The Long, Dark Reach

Part II: The Spring Offensive

Four: Only Do, or Do Not

Five: Gauntlet

Six: Welcome to the Family

Seven: The Becoming

Eight: Bring Out Your Dead

Nine: The Moral High Ground

Photos

Part III: The Summer of Discontent

Ten: The Gates of Mordor

Eleven: Morning on the Mountain

Twelve: The Zombie Apocalypse

Thirteen: Desolation Walk

Fourteen: Blood Brothers

Fifteen: The Place Beyond Devotion

Sixteen: Chickenshit Squared

Seventeen: Skeleton Crew

Eighteen: Arrival Moment

Nineteen: Rocket’s Red Glare

Twenty: Last Fair Deal Gone Down

Twenty-one: Village of the Damned

Twenty-two: Shake and Bake

Twenty-three: The Far Side of the Sky

Twenty-four: We Stumble Through

Part IV: Indomitable Moments

Twenty-five: Crosses to Bear

Twenty-six: The Place Where Mettle Grows

Twenty-seven: The Last Last Stand

Twenty-eight: Homeward Bound

Epilogue

Platoon Members

Acknowledgments

Glossary

About the Authors

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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