E P Dutton</br></br>Product Description</br></br><b>"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?<i>The Perfect Storm</i><br><br>??<i>Red Platoon?</i>is?sure to become a classic of the genre.???Hampton Sides?? author of?<i>Ghost Soldiers</i>?and?<i>In the Kingdom of Ice<br><br></i>Now a <i>New York Times</i>?bestseller. 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 <i>Black Hawk Down </i>by Mark Bowden and <i>Lone Survivor</i> by Marcus Luttrell.</b><br> ?<br> "t doesn't get better.'</b> To us?? that phrase nailed one of the essential truths?? maybe even <i>the</i> 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?<i>Keating?</i>had become a kind of backhanded joke."> ?<br>In 2009?? Clinton Romesha of Red Platoon and the rest of the Black