Wanat, Battle of (13 July 2008): Books, Audiobooks, and DVDs owned by Avn Tech Library

The Three Battles of Wanat and Other True Stories, features the best of Mark Bowden's long-form pieces on war. The titular article, "The Three Battles of Wanat," tells the story of one of the bloodiest days in the War in Afghanistan and the extraordinary years-long fallout it generated within the United States military.

Throughout history men and women have fought, endured, and sometimes emerged victorious though the odds were against them. What conditions must exist to enable relatively small or weak forces to challenge and even overcome the strong? Here are twenty historical examples, from 1777 to the present, that reveal both the common themes and the exceptional aspects of those achievements.