Filter By Subjects
Afghan War, 2001- Campaigns Afghan War, 2001- Campaigns Afghanistan Korangal Valley Afghan War, 2001- Personal narratives, American Bādghīs (Afghanistan) History, Military Murgab River Region (Afghanistan and Turkmenistan) History, Military Soldiers United States Biography Taliban. United States. Army. Airborne Brigade, 173rd. United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd. United States. Marine Corps Non-commissioned officers BiographyFilter By Subjects
Afghan War, 2001- Campaigns Afghan War, 2001- Campaigns Afghanistan Korangal Valley Afghan War, 2001- Personal narratives, American Bādghīs (Afghanistan) History, Military Murgab River Region (Afghanistan and Turkmenistan) History, Military Soldiers United States Biography Taliban. United States. Army. Airborne Brigade, 173rd. United States. Army. Airborne Division, 82nd. United States. Marine Corps Non-commissioned officers BiographyMorgan, Wesley
Summary: "When we think of the war in Afghanistan, chances are we're thinking of a small, remote corner of the country where American military action has been concentrated: the Pech and its tributary valleys in Kunar and Nuristan provinces. The rugged, steep terrain and thick forests made the region a natural hiding spot for targets in the American war on terror, from Osama bin Laden to the Islamic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 MORHarnden, Toby
Summary: America is reeling; Al-Qaeda has struck and thousands are dead. The country scrambles to respond, but the Pentagon has no plan for Afghanistan--where Osama bin Laden masterminded the attack and is protected by the Taliban. Instead, the CIA steps forward to spearhead the war. Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 HARThorpe, Helen
Summary: Describes the experiences of three women soldiers deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq to reveal how their military service has affected their friendship, personal lives and families, detailing the realities of their work on bases and in war zones and how their choices and losses shaped their perspectives.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 THOSummary: Chronicles the remarkable story of the legendary alpine fighting force known as the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Their claim to fame began during World War II when the U.S. Army advanced on the Germans who were entrenched in Italy's heavily fortified mountaintops. After losing 15,000 soldiers attempting to capture this critical high ground, the U.S. Army brass called up the 10th, and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janson Media 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Schilling, Dan
Summary: "The astonishing true account of John Chapman, Medal of Honor recipient and Special Ops Combat Controller, and his heroic one-man stand during the Afghan War, as he sacrificed his life to save the lives of 23 comrades-in-arms."--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAPMAN, JOHN SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War SchillingBlackmon, Jimmy F.
Summary: A "never-before-told true story of an army aviation task force during combat in the Afghan War, told by the commanding officer who was there. Set in the very valleys where the attacks of 9/11 were conceived, and where ten Medals of Honor have been earned since that fateful day the war began, the narrative races from ferocious firefights and bravery in battle to the quiet moments where the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 BLASummary: Follows many of the soldiers featured in "Restrepo" after they've left combat in order to examine how war works, what it feels like, and what it does to the young men who fight it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KORJunger, Sebastian.
Summary: Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 958.104 JUNGrenier, Robert (Robert L.)
Summary: The First American-Afghan War, a CIA war, was approved by President George W. Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani Intelligence, Grenier launched the “southern campaign,” orchestrating the final defeat of the Taliban and Hamid Karzai’s rise to power in eighty-eight chaotic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 GREDonald, Mark L.
Summary: A memoir from a SEAL and medic in which he explores his 25-year career in dangerous combat missions and the post-traumatic stress disorder that developed at home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DONALD, MARK L DONGroberg, Florent
Summary: Describes the author's childhood relocation from France to the U.S., where as a naturalized citizen he joined the military and served multiple tours in Afghanistan before he was wounded while protecting his patrol from a suicide bomber.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GROBERG, FLORENT GROTyson, Ann
Summary: "Veteran war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson first met Special Forces Major James Gant and heard about his battle renown when he was awarded the Silver Star several years ago. Soon after, in October, 2009, Gant rocked the US military establishment with hispaper "One Tribe at a Time," an incendiary criticism of what he considered a gaping hole in U.S. strategy: The failure to engage Afghanistan's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 GANT, JAMES TYSBrennan, Thomas J. (Thomas James)
Summary: "A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer, whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls War tears people apart, but it can also bring them together. Through the unpredictability of war and its aftermath, a decorated Marine sergeant and a world-trotting war photographer became friends, their bond forged as they patrolled together through...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BRECastner, Brian.
Summary: "When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been killed by an IED in Afghanistan, he goes to console Matt's widow, but he also begins a personal investigation. Is the bomb maker who killed Matt the same man American forces have been hunting since Iraq, known as the Engineer? In this nonfiction thriller Castner takes us inside the manhunt for this...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 358 CASGiunta, Salvatore A. (Salvatore Augustine)
Summary: A Medal of Honor recipient shares the story of his military career, recounting his deployment to Afghanistan's volatile Korengal Valley and his life-risking efforts to provide medical aid to wounded fellow soldiers during an October 2007 Taliban ambush.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Books 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 GIUNTA, SALVATORE GIUGolembesky, Michael
Summary: "Level Zero Heroes, Michael Golembesky's bestselling account of Marine Special Operations Team 8222 in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, was just the beginning for these now battle-hardened special operations warriors. The unforgiving Afghan winter has settled upon the 22 men of Marine Special Operations Team 8222, callsign Dagger 22, in the remote and hostile river valley of Bala Murghab,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 GOLLuttrell, Marcus.
Summary: The leader, and only survivor, of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs sent to northern Afghanistan to capture a well-known al Qaeda leader chronicles the events of the battle that killed his teammates and offers insight into the training of this elite group of warriors.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Back Bay Books 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Malkasian, Carter
Summary: If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the front line. These small places are the heart of the war. Malkasian's War Comes to Garmser promises to be a landmark account of the war in Afghanistan. The author, who spent nearly two years in Garmser, a community in war-torn...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 MALWest, Francis J.
Summary: Presents an account of a persevering Marine platoon's experiences in one of the most violent districts in Afghanistan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 WESGolembesky, Michael
Summary: The author follows the members of U.S. Marine Special Operations Team 8222 on their assignment to the remote and isolated Taliban stronghold known as Bala Murghab as they conduct special operations in an effort to break the Taliban's grip on the Valley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 GOLSummary: This documentary chronicles the deployment of a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, starting in 2007. The movie focuses on a remote 15-man outpost, Restrepo, named after a platoon medic who was killed in action. It was considered one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military. This is an entirely experiential film: the cameras never leave the valley; there are no...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgil Films & Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RES1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RES
Summary: The story of four Navy SEALs sent on an ill-fated covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative. They are ambushed by enemy forces in the Hindu Kush region of Afghanistan. Based on The New York Times bestseller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONJunger, Sebastian.
Summary: Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm," turns his brilliant and empathetic eye to the reality of combat in this on-the-ground account that follows a single platoon through a 15-month tour of duty in the most dangerous outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 JUNCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.104 JUNKesling, Ben
Summary: "In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the 82nd Airborne Division. A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to Afghanistan for a tour in Kandahar's notorious Arghandab Valley. By the time they made it home, three soldiers...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2022