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Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Whalers - the Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan

Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Whalers - the Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan - Paperback

by Ed Darack
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ed DarackAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2010-04-06Pages:368
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780425232590ISBN-10:042523259XUPC:9780425232590Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, MilitaryBook Topic:Afghan War (2001-2021), United States, Iraq War (2003-2011)Size:8.96 x 6.10 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SCTMV1RJ4B
In late June 2005, media sources recounted the tragic story of nineteen U.S. special operations personnel who died at the hands of insurgent / terrorist leader Ahmad Shah- and the lone survivor of Shah's ambush-deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. The harrowing events of Operation Red Wings marked an important-yet widely misreported-chapter in the Global War on Terror, the full details of which the public burned to learn.


In Victory Point, globally published author and photographer Ed Darack reveals the complete, as-yet untold, story of Operation Red Wings (often mis-referenced as "Operation Redwing"), and the follow-on mission, Operation Whalers. Together, these two U.S. Marine Corps operations (that in the case of Red Wings utilized Navy SEALs for its opening phase) unfurl not as a mission gone terribly wrong, but of a complex and difficult campaign that ultimately saw the demise of Ahmad Shan and his small army of barbarous fighters.

Due to the valor, courage and commitment of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment in the summer of 2005, Afghanistan was able to hold free elections that Fall. Here is the inspiring true account of heroism, duty, and brotherhood between Marines fighting the War on Terror.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780425232590ISBN-10:042523259XUPC:9780425232590Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, MilitaryBook Topic:Afghan War (2001-2021), United States, Iraq War (2003-2011)Size:8.96 x 6.10 x 0.94 inchesWeight:0.85Product ID:SCTMV1RJ4B
A globally publishd writer and photographer, Ed Darack has covered the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment since their pre-Afghan mountain warfare training in the spring of 2005, and he has stayed with them through their subsequent deployment to Afghanistan and tour in Iraq's Anbar province. He is the author of numerous articles on military issues for such publications as Smithsonian Air and Space, the Marine Corps Gazette, and Proceedings of the Naval Institute Press, among others. His photography has been used by National Geographic, Outside Magazine, The Sunday London Times, the BBC, Time, ABC, NBC, IBM, Volkswagen and Bank of America, among many other editorial and corporate clients.
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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