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CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
A Note to the Reader
Cast of Characters
Prologue
ONE: Benghazi
TWO: The Annex
THREE: The Ambassador
FOUR: September 11, 2012
FIVE: Overrun
SIX: Gunfighter Road
SEVEN: Man Down
EIGHT: Counterattack
NINE: Zombieland
TEN: Hard Target
ELEVEN: Incoming?
TWELVE: Mortars!
THIRTEEN: Convoy
Epilogue
Photos
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Also by Mitchell Zuckoff
Select Bibliography
Newsletters
Copyright
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