The Only Thing Worth Dying For - Eric Blehm
Category: History
Narrator: P.J. Ochlan
Tags: History, Military, Adults
Publisher: HarperAudio File size: 367048 KB Release date: May 8, 2012 Duration: 12:44:40, 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, Karzaion the run from the Talibanwas 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 enemyand their commanders in Washington knew even less. With unprecedented access to surviving m
