Bravo Company
- Author Ben Kesling
- Narrator Ben Kesling
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 11 October 2022
- Run Time 12 hours and 47 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Military history, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts.
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What to expect
A timely and searing account of the American war in Afghanistan
In Bravo Company, journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling tells the story of the war in Afghanistan through the eyes of the men of one unit, part of a combat-hardened parachute infantry regiment in the US Army’s 82nd Airborne Division.
A decade ago, the soldiers of Bravo Company deployed to Afghanistan for a tour in Kandahar’s notorious Arghandab Valley. By the time they made it home, three soldiers had been killed in action, a dozen more had lost limbs, and an astonishing half of the company had earned Purple Hearts.
In the decade since, two of the soldiers have died by suicide, more than a dozen have tried, and others admit they’ve considered it. Declared at “extraordinary risk” by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Bravo Company was chosen as test subjects for a new approach to the veteran crisis, focusing less on isolated individuals and more on the group.
Written with an insider’s eye and ear and drawing on extensive interviews and original reporting, Bravo Company follows the men from their initial enlistment and training, through their deployment and a major shift in their mission, and then on to what has happened in the decade since, as they returned to combat in other units or moved on with their lives as civilians, or struggled to.
This is a powerful, insightful, and memorable account of a war that didn’t end for these soldiers just because Bravo Company came home.
Critics Review
“Impossible to put down…Kesling delivers a gripping, detailed, nuts-and-bolt account of their ordeal…An outstanding narrative about a single unit’s harrowing experiences in the ‘forever war.’”
“Kesling captures not only war but the way war puts the complexities and paradoxes of life itself in sharp relief, revealing to us the strangeness of memory and love and loss and honor and pain.”
“Bravo Company is an honest account of bravery, sacrifice, and what it means to seek redemption…Read this remarkable book.”
“Masterful…For those who came home, Kesling’s book is a road map of their journey. For those who were lost, this book stands as a memorial.”
“War’s long, dark tail emerges in all its terror and thrill here, summoning the old wisdom of the past not even being past. What a great book.”
“Perfectly captures the true cost of the decades-long war in Afghanistan…For anyone who ever wanted to know about the cost of war, this is the book.”
“The men of Bravo Company are captivating, raw, salty—and above all real. Ben Kesling knows of what he writes and does us a service to bring home their stories of war and the battles afterward.”
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