In this past month, I read both Red Platoon (mentioned above by Swaghauler) and Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division by Col. Jimmy Blackmon.
Red Platoon was great, although disappointing in that the unit had such a hard fight through no fault of their own.
Pale Horse was written by the commander of the aviation brigade that supported Red Platoon during its hard fight. He writes of constantly struggling with a lack of machines relative to the missions needed. COP Keating was due to be evacuated in the weeks before the battle, but other operations and priorities intruded.
EDIT: and one of those other priorities was the search for an MIA named Bergdahl.
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