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

Author/Contributor(s):	Zoroya, Gregg
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Date:	05/01/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"A single company of US paratroppers - calling themselves the "Chosen Few" - arrived in eastern Afghanistan in late 2007 hooping to win the hearts and minds of the remote mountain people and extend the Afghan government's reach into this wilderness. Instead, they spent the next fifteen months in a desperate struggle, living under almost continuous attack, forced into a slow and grinding withdrawal, and always outnumbered by Taliban fighters descending on them from all sides ... "--Book jacket.