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The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
Harper
May 2015
On Sale: April 21, 2015
320 pages
ISBN: 006233381X
EAN: 9780062333810
Kindle: B00MTSC86K
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dressmaker of Khair Khana comes the poignant and gripping story of a groundbreaking team of female American warriors who served alongside Special Operations soldiers on the battlefield in AfghanistanΒβincluding Ashley White, a beloved soldier who died serving her countryβs cause. In 2010, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command created Cultural Support Teams, a pilot program to put women on the battlefield alongside Green Berets and Army Rangers on sensitive missions in Afghanistan. The idea was that women could access places and people that had remained out of reach, and could build relationshipsβwoman to womanβin ways that male soldiers in a conservative, traditional country could not. Though officially banned from combat, female soldiers could be βattachedβ to different teams, and for the first time, women throughout the Army heard the call to try out for this special ops program. In Ashleyβs War, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon uses exhaustive firsthand reporting and a finely tuned understanding of the complexities of war to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women hand-picked from across the Army, and the remarkable hero at its heart: 1st Lt. Ashley White, who would become the first Cultural Support Team member killed in action and the first CST remembered on the Army Special Operations Memorial Wall of Honor alongside the Army Rangers with whom she served. Transporting readers into this little-known world of fierce women bound together by valor, danger, and the desire to serve, Ashleyβs War is a riveting combat narrative and a testament to the unbreakable bonds born of war.
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