Outlaw Platoon: Heroes | Renegades | Infidels | and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

Acclaimed for its vivid | poignant | and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kesh | Outlaw Platoon is a Band of Brothers or We Were Soldiers Once and Young for the early 21st century—a riveting | action-packed | highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery.At twenty-four years of age | U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry platoon | the 10th Mountain Division—a unit that came to be known as the Outlaws. Tasked with rooting out Pakistan-based insurgents from a valley in the Hindu Kush | Parnell assumed they would be facing a ragtag bunch of civilians until | in May 2006 | a routine patrol turned into a brutal ambush. Through sixteen months of combat | the platoon became Parnell's family. The cost of battle was high for these men. Not all of them made it home | but for those who did | it was the love and faith they found in one another that ultimately kept them alive.A magnificent account of heroes | renegades | infidels | and brothers | Outlaw Platoon stands with Sebastian Junger’s War as one of the most important books to yet emerge from the heat | smoke | and fire of America’s War in Afghanistan.