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Author:

Blehm, Eric.

Title:

The only thing worth dying for : how eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan / Eric Blehm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Harper,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

375 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Afghan War, 2001---Commando operations--United States.
United States.--Special Forces--Special Forces--History--21st century.
Afghanistan--Politics and government--2001-
Karzai, Hamid,--1957-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

A most dangerous mission -- The quiet professionals -- To war -- The soldier and the statesman -- The Taliban patrol -- The battle of Tarin Kowt -- Credibility -- Madness -- Death on the horizon -- The ruins -- The thirteenth sortie -- Futility -- Rescue at Shawali Kowt -- Worth dying for.

Summary:

The author exposes the realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan in this chronicle of one of the most important military mission in the early days of the Global War on Terror--ODA 574--wherein a Special Forces team infiltrated the mountains of southern Afghanistan, fomented a tribal revolt, and forced the Taliban to surrender.

ISBN:

0061661236
9780061661235

OCLC:

(OCoLC)474358922

LCCN:

2010007869

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