Drawing on unprecedented access to a team of green berets, high-level military planners and Hamid Karzai, the author of The Last Season tells the story of the U.S. Army Special Forces team that conquered the Taliban against overwhelming odds while protecting Karzai before he became the first democratically elected leader of Afghanistan. 75,000 first printing. Relates the story of the U.S. Army Special Forces team that infiltrated southern Afghanistan during the earliest weeks of the war to instigate a tribal revolt against the Taliban with the assistance of their only ally, newly-returned exile Hamid Karzai. 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 surrender. From Eric Blehm, the author of the award-winning bestseller The Last Season, comes The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan, the untold story of the U.S. Army Special Forces team that conquered the Taliban against overwhelming odds while protecting Hamid Karzai, who would soon become the first democratically elected leader of the embattled nation. A story of uncommon bravery and, ultimately, terrible sacrifice, The Only Thing Worth Dying For intimately exposes the realities of unconventional warfare and nation-building in Afghanistan after September 11, 2001.
