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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 Afghanistan—including Ashley
White, a beloved soldier who died serving her country’s
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 relationships—woman to
woman—in ways that male soldiers in a conservative,
traditional country could not. Though officially banned from
combat, female soldiers could be “attached” to different
teams, and for the first time, women throughout the Army
heard the call to try out for this special ops
program. In Ashley’s 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, Ashley’s War is a riveting
combat narrative and a testament to the unbreakable bonds
born of war.
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