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Ten true talesFarthing, Pen.
Summary: Describes how the author's witness to the brutality of Afghanistan's dog-fighting activities prompted his intervention and led to his relationship with a freed canine, recounting how he helped create a makeshift pound for rescued and stray dogs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.08 FARStanton, Doug.
Summary: Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dramatic account that includes testimonies by Afghanistan citizens whose lives were changed by the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 STA1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 958.1047 STA
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 958.1047 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars StantonStanton, Doug.
Summary: Drawing on in-country observations and exclusive interviews, Stanton delivers the jaw-dropping tale of how 12 top-secret commandos slip into Afghanistan, kill Al Qaeda fighters, and topple the Taliban.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 STAStanton, Doug.
Summary: Following 9/11, a small band of Special Forces soldiers secretly entered Afghanistan and rode to war on horseback against the Taliban. Outnumbered forty to one, they pursued the enemy across the mountains and captured the strategic city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Bone-weary, they were welcomed by throngs of overjoyed Afghans in the streets. Then the action took an unexpected turn: the Horse Soldiers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 958.1047 STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 958.1047 STARobinson, Patrick
Summary: "Patrick Robinson, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor shares the gripping untold story of Mohammed Gulab, the Pashtun warrior who defied the Taliban and saved the life of American hero and Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell. Bestselling author Patrick Robinson helped Marcus Luttrell bring his harrowing story of survival in Lone Survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GULAB, MOHAMMED ROBStanton, Doug
Summary: Documents the post-September 11 mission during which a small band of Special Forces soldiers captured the strategic Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif as part of an effort to defeat the Taliban, in a dramatic account that includes testimonies by Afghanistan citizens whose lives were changed by the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 STACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1047 STAStanton, Doug.
Summary: Doug Stanton tells the astonishing story of twelve U.S. soldiers who rode horses into Afghanistan immediately following 9/11 to defeat the Taliban.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Audioworks 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 STACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 958.1047 STACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA 958.1047 StaRuliffson, Jess
Summary: "Candid, compassionate graphic interviews with returning war vets from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Cartoonist Jess Ruliffson spent five years traveling across the country interviewing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, from kitchen tables in Georgia and libraries in New York City to dive bars in Mississippi and back porches in Vermont. What she finds is that the real...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2022
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Summary: "Inspired by generations of her family's unwavering belief in the power of education, Pashtana Durrani recognized her calling early in life: to educate Afghanistan's girls and young women, raised in a society where learning is forbidden. In a country devastated by war and violence, heeding that call seemed both impossible and dangerous. Pashtana founded the nonprofit LEARN and developed a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corporation 2024
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Summary: An account of the horrendous October 2009 attack on the American Combat Outpost Keating in Afghanistan, told in a frank, engaging vernacular by the staff sergeant and Medal of Honor winner. Romesha ably captures the daily dangers faced by these courageous American soldiers in Afghanistan.-- "'It doesn't get better.' To us, that phrase nailed one of the essential truths, maybe even the essential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 ROMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 ROMLagoze, Miles
Summary: "For readers of Jarhead and Phil Klay, a Marine Combat Cameraman offers a character-rich, unfiltered look at military life in Afghanistan, from a Millennial perspective of soldiers raised with modern media and graphic video games"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LAGOZE, MILES LAGZullo, Allan.
Summary: Ten stories of American heroes who have risked their lives for their country while fighting in the Afghan War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 958.1045 ZULColl, Steve.
Summary: An account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1045 COLRichardson, Edmund
Summary: "Impeccably researched, and written like a thriller, Edmund Richardson's The King's Shadow is the extraordinary untold and wild journey of Charles Masson -- think Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid meets Indiana Jones -- and his search for the Lost City of Alexandria in the 'Wild East' during the age of empires, kings, and spies. For centuries the city of Alexandria Beneath the Mountains was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MASSON, CHARLES RICChandrasekaran, Rajiv.
Summary: In this book, the author focuses on southern Afghanistan in the year of Obama's surge. This is the story of the long arc of American involvement, and of the campaign to salvage a victory in southern Afghanistan on Obama's watch., and reveals the epic tugof war that occurred between the President and a military that, once on the ground, increasingly went its own way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 CHAFury, Dalton.
Summary: A firsthand account of the Battle of Tora Bora and the Delta Force operations outlines the experiences of its elite team of secret counter-terrorist members, tracing their siege against bin Laden within his cave sanctuary inside the Spin Ghar Mountain range.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 FURSummary: 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
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KORTzemach Lemmon, Gayle
Summary: Presents the story of First Lieutenant Ashley White and a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battle field in Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.1 TZEZullo, Allan.
Summary: Five times throughout a fierce firefight, Marine Scout Sniper Scott Montoya spots an injured comrade in the street. And five times Scott disregards his own safety and rushes out into the open, braving enemy fire to rescue each wounded Marine. Staff Sergeant Chad Malmberg and his small band of soldiers are outnumbered ten to one against well-armed insurgents and they're running out of ammo....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 956.7 ZULSummary: Pat Tillman chose to walk away from a multimillion-dollar football contract and join the military for no other reason than he felt it was the right thing to do. Documented are the facts surrounding the way the military manipulated his tragic death in the line of duty into a propaganda tool.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TILGiunta, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 GIUNTA, SALVATORE GIURobichaux, Chad
Summary: Aziz was more than an interpreter for Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux during his eight deployments to Afghanistan. He was a teammate, brother, and friend. When President Biden announced in April 2021 that the United States would be making a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, it was vital to get Aziz and his family out before Taliban forces took over the country. Robichaux details the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 ROBGarcia, J. Malcolm
Summary: "Collection of literary reportage from Afghanistan: stories that go unreported, the lives of people not usually considered newsworthy or important, people who struggle just to survive"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 GARTanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018