The Only Thing Worth Dying For Paperback / softback - 2011
by Eric Blehm
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- Paperback
"The Only Thing Worth Dying For" is not only brilliant, it's the one book you must read if you have any hope of understanding what our fine American soldiers are up against in Afghanistan.--former Congressman Charlie Wilson.
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- Title The Only Thing Worth Dying For
- Author Eric Blehm
- Series P.S.
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 424
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2011-01-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780061661235_inp
- ISBN 9780061661235 / 0061661236
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Library of Congress subjects Karzai, Hamid, Afghanistan - Politics and government - 2001-
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010007869
- Dewey Decimal Code 958.104
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From the rear cover
On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, a U.S. Special Forces team of Green Berets known as ODA 574 infiltrated the mountains of southern Afghanistan with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and force the Taliban to surrender. Armed solely with the equipment they could carry on their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla warfare, Captain Jason Amerine and his ten men had no choice but to trust their only ally, a little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai. Having returned from exile, Karzai--on the run from the Taliban--was traveling the countryside to raise a militia.
The Only Thing Worth Dying For chronicles the most important mission in the early days of the Global War on Terror, when the men on the ground knew little about the enemy--and their commanders in Washington knew even less. With unprecedented access to surviving members of ODA 574, key war planners, and Karzai himself, award-winning author Eric Blehm cuts through the noise of politicians and high-level military officials to narrate for the first time a story of uncommon bravery and terrible sacrifice, intimately exposing the realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan that continue to shape the region today.
