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  • The Only Thing Worth Dying For

  • How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan
  • By: Eric Blehm
  • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
  • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (62 ratings)

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The Only Thing Worth Dying For

By: Eric Blehm
Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
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Summary

On a moonless night just weeks after September 11, 2001, U.S. Special Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates 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 can carry on their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their mastery of guerrilla warfare, Captain Jason Amerine and his men have no choice but to trust their only ally: a little-known Pashtun statesman named Hamid Karzai who has returned from exile and is being hunted by the Taliban as he travels the countryside raising 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.

©2010 Eric Blehm (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers
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Special Forces in Afghanistan

Interesting history of the very early days in Afghanistan. Great for any one with an interest in American Special Forces

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great book on how the green berets work

Tell you why senior officers should stick to what they should and not interfere

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great read

absolutely loved this book great story brilliantly told by the narrator oda 574 remember brilliantly

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Nooooooooooo the accents finished me off!

So I'm on chapter three, it's about my eighth attempt at this audio book, and I seriously don't think I'm going to be able to listen to the rest of it. The narrator's accents are killing me they are so cringe worthy!! Why oh why is Karzi an old Eatonion? To the best of my knowledge according to this very book he's an northern Afghan warlord so why a posh brit?? I'm confused and it's so disconcerting I'm truly struggling with the whole book, the narrator is fine to listen to when he talks normally, so why throw this hand grenade of weirdly unmatched accents into the mix, my ears nearly died laughing to start with, but it soon started to really grate on me! I'm sure there's an ok book and narration hiding behind the fringe festival comedy voices?? But if rather not drive myself nuts trying to find it when there are so many other choices which have been done right the first time. Waste of a credit.

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