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“The Last Platoon” from Bing West, Outstanding Novel of Afghanistan Share This: In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. — Saint Augustine  Bing West was born to be a Marine. When he was just two years old, his two uncles were in the Marine Corps and fought on Guadalcanal. Later, his family allowed a baseball team of Marines to use the attic of their Dorchester, Massachusetts home as a kind of clubhouse.  There they’d be able to talk among themselves about things they’d never have been able to say to their families. Bing’s mother thought they’d make...

Excerpt from Bing West’s latest novel ‘The Last Platoon’ Bing West "The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War," by Bing West. New York Times #1 bestselling author, Bing West, called “the grunt’s Homer” by the Los Angeles Times, has a new book out this month. “THE LAST PLATOON: A Novel of the Afghanistan War” traces the physical and moral path of Marine Captain Diego Cruz, whose platoon, together with a small band of CIA operatives, is protecting a besieged base in Helmand, Afghanistan’s most violent province. To be promoted, Cruz seeks to win the approval of the...