The only thing worth dying for : how eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan / Eric Blehm.
The only thing worth dying for : how eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan / Eric Blehm.
The only thing worth dying for : how eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan / Eric Blehm.
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New York : Harper, c2010.
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N958.1047/15
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English
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Physical content
320 p.
Contents
A most dangerous mission -- The quiet professionals -- To war -- The soldier and the statesman -- The Taliban patrol -- The battle of Tarin Kowt -- Credibility -- Madness -- Death on the horizon -- The ruins -- The thirteenth sortie -- Futility -- Rescue at Shawali Kowt -- Worth dying for.
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Publisher
New York : Harper, c2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2010.
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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 sur...
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The only thing worth dying for : how eleven Green Berets forged a new Afghanistan / Eric Blehm.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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c2010.
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N958.1047/15
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74Vvy7vEd4yg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74Vvy7vEd4yg
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ISBN
0061661228 : HRD
9780061661235
0061661236
9780061661228 : HRD
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958.1047
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991016082499702626
