| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 43 min.)) : digital |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by P.J. Ochlan. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Commando operations -- United States.
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United States. Army. Special Forces -- History -- 21st century.
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Afghanistan -- Politics and government -- 2001-2021
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Karzai, Hamid, 1957-
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| Added Author |
Ochlan, P. J. Narrator.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9780062224194 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book) |
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0062224190 (sound recording) (hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11586934 |
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