The Only Thing Worth Dying For The Only Thing Worth Dying For

The Only Thing Worth Dying For

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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
History
NARRATOR
PO
P.J. Ochlan
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
12:43
hr min
RELEASED
2012
May 8
PUBLISHER
HarperAudio
SIZE
645.2
MB

Customer Reviews

N'Lee ,

Good book, but…

I don’t know ANY SOF member, that would repeatedly call rifle magazines, “clips”… 😂 Must be the writer filling in some gaps.

Schi0529 ,

Must read

This is a great book one of the best I’ve read. It tell a story that so many don’t know but they should. Just read it.

Randy daggs ,

I don’t recommend

Bad narration and I’m sure our guys are more together than was depicted.

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