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Author:
Blehm, Eric. author. (local)386592
Title:
The only thing worth dying for : how eleven Green Berets fought for a new Afghanistan / Eric Blehm.
Edition:
First Harper Perennial Edition
Publisher:
HarperPerennial ;
Copyright Date:
2011, ©2010
Description:
375, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Subject:
Karzai, Hamid,--1957-
United States.--Special Forces--Special Forces--History--21st century.
Afghan War, 2001---Commando operations--United States.
Afghanistan--Politics and government--2001-
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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 (pbk) :
Locations:
AXPF626 -- Oskaloosa Public Library (Oskaloosa)

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