MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 02679pam a22003014a 4500
001 5268352
005 20221110004122.0
008 040910t20052005nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2004057465
020 $a0425196097
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm56592513
035 $a(NNC)5268352
035 $a5268352
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dIG#$dOrLoB-B
043 $aa-af---
050 00 $aDS371.4123.O64$bN39 2005
082 00 $a958.104/7$222
100 1 $aNaylor, Sean.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96030121
245 10 $aNot a good day to die :$bthe untold story of operation anaconda /$cSean Naylor.
246 0 $iAdditional subtitle on jacket:$aChaos and courage in the mountains of Afghanistan
260 $aNew York :$bBerkley Books,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axix, 425 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [411]-414) and index.
520 1 $a"It was America's first battle of the twenty-first century. At dawn on March 2, 2002, over two hundred soldiers of the 101st Airborne and 10th Mountain Divisions flew into the mouth of a buzz saw in Afghanistan's Shahikot Valley. They were about to pay a price in blood for strategic miscalculations at much higher levels of command." "Believing the war in Afghanistan to be all but over, senior leaders in the Pentagon and at U.S. Central Command refused to commit the forces required to achieve total victory there. Responsibility for fighting the war's biggest battle - a battle that offered the opportunity to wipe out hundreds of Al Qaida fighters and kill or capture some of the most senior terrorist leaders - was delegated instead to a hodgepodge of units thrown together at the last moment in a process their staff officers referred to as "ad hocracy."" "The soldiers who flew into the Shahikot that frigid morning were executing a plan that was the product of negotiation and compromise, and which was based on a series of faulty assumptions that underestimated the enemy's strength and willingness to stand and fight." "Naylor exposes the mistakes behind a hellish mountaintop fire-fight in which seven brave Americans gave their lives. He tells for the first time the extraordinary story of how thirteen commandos drawn from America's most secret units crept unseen over frozen ridgelines and through snow-clogged mountain passes into the midst of hundreds of hardened enemy fighters and in doing so prevented a U.S. military catastrophe."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aOperation Anaconda, 2002.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004004469
852 00 $bleh$hDS371.4123.O64$iN39 2005