The Battle for Marjah (2011)

The Battle for Marjah: In February 2010, U.S. Marines launched Afghanistan: Operation Mashtarak, the biggest operation since the start of the Afghanistan war, whose main target was the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, a town in Helmand province. Journalist Ben Anderson, who spent two months with the American forces, offers an extraordinarily intimate look at the brutal realities of modern-day warfare.