{"product_id":"victory-point-operations-red-wings-and-whalers-the-marine-corps-battle-for-freedom-in-afghanistan-9780425232590","title":"Victory Point: Operations Red Wings and Whalers - the Marine Corps' Battle for Freedom in Afghanistan","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eVictory Point\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDue 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA globally publishd writer and photographer, \u003cb\u003eEd Darack\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian Air and Space\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eMarine Corps Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eProceedings of the Naval Institute Press, \u003c\/i\u003e among others. His photography has been used by \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic, Outside Magazine, The Sunday London Times\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eBBC\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, ABC, NBC, IBM, Volkswagen and Bank of America, among many other editorial and corporate clients.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491727413522,"sku":"9780425232590","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ce940b01-178c-4e9e-8bd9-c68b96db8cc9.jpg?v=1730552539","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/victory-point-operations-red-wings-and-whalers-the-marine-corps-battle-for-freedom-in-afghanistan-9780425232590","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}