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One Million Steps A Marine Platoon At War West Bing

Name: One Million Steps A Marine Platoon At War West Bing
SKU: BELL-8294712
Price: 31.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.8 (64 reviews)

SKU: BELL-8294712

$ 31.00 ~~$ 45.00~~ (-31%)

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One Million Steps A Marine Platoon At War West Bing instant download after payment.

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 4.39 MB

Pages: 336

Author: West Bing

ISBN: 9781400068746, 9781588369338, 1400068746, 1588369331

Language: English

Year: 2014

Product desciption

One Million Steps A Marine Platoon At War West Bing by West Bing 9781400068746, 9781588369338, 1400068746, 1588369331 instant download after payment.

Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion.

Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon fought in Sangin, the most dangerous district in all of Afghanistan. So heavy were the casualties that the Secretary of Defense offered to pull the Marines out. Instead, they pushed forward. Each Marine in 3rd Platoon patrolled two and a half miles a day for six months—a total of one million steps—in search of a ghostlike enemy that struck without warning. Why did the Marines attack and attack, day after day?

Every day brought a new skirmish. Each footfall might trigger an IED. Half the Marines in 3rd Platoon didn’t make it intact to the end of the tour. One Million Steps is the story of the fifty brave men who faced these grim odds and refused to back down. Based on Bing West’s embeds with 3rd Platoon, as well as on their handwritten log, this is a gripping grunt’s-eye view of life on the front lines of America’s longest war. Writing with a combat veteran’s compassion for the fallen, West also offers a damning critique of the higher-ups who expected our warriors to act as nation-builders—and whose failed strategy put American lives at unnecessary risk.

Each time a leader was struck down, another rose up to take his place. How does one man instill courage in another? What welded these men together as firmly as steel plates?

This remarkable book is the story of warriors caught between a maddening, unrealistic strategy and their unswerving commitment to the fight. Fearsome, inspiring, and poignant in its telling, One Million Steps is sure to become a classic, a unique and enduring testament to the American warrior spirit.