They may look at both sides involved in the war or focus on just one side. The goal of most non-fiction military books is to provide the reader with a factual account of the role of the military event event the is covering. Modern-day non-fiction military books cover wars that have happened more recently, such as World War I and World War II, in addition to the Iraq war and many others. Historical military books cover militaries and wars from long ago, such as those of ancient Greece and Rome or the Chinese Empire. Non-fiction military books provide the story of real-life events that have taken place. Military warfare is a complex and far-reaching topic, as are the books that cover it. Military books can cover a range of topics from strategy to technology to heroes. ' Red Platoon is sure to become a classic of the genre.For those who are interested in learning more about wars, military books provide excitement and intrigue. '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 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. The ensuing fourteen-hour battle-and eventual victory-cost eight men their lives. On October 3, 2009, after years of constant smaller attacks, the Taliban finally decided to throw everything they had at Keating.

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.

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. ''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.' 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.

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