The Only Thing Worth Dying For : How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan - Eric Blehm

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The Only Thing Worth Dying For

How Eleven Green Berets Fought for a New Afghanistan

By: Eric Blehm

eBook | 19 March 2024

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The untold exploits of the U.S. Army Special Forces team that conquered the Taliban are revealed in this "gripping story of admirable men" (Kirkus).

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 recounts 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.

"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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"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."
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