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The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged A New Afghanistan (2010)

by Eric Blehm(Favorite Author)

4.26 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061661228 (ISBN13: 9780061661228)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Harper

review 1: Falling between the war memoir and the special forces history, THE ONLY THING WORTH DYING FOR covers the infiltration of Hamid Karzai and eleven US Army Special Forces operatives into Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the work suffers from the same handicap as the mission: as everything is political, the soldiers can't engage without an OK from Washington, and much time is spent drinking tea with Kazakhs rather than fighting. And while escorting Karzai is a decent and worthy mission, there's just far less contact in mountainous Afghanistan than urbanized Iraq. Even some of the Kosovo memoirs seem more intense3/5. Of interest to historians and Afghan experts but does not offer the full scale battles of, say, ONE BULLET AWAY or GUNS UP! Read only if you are "need to know" about... more Karzai. And the are a few pinzgauers
review 2: I cried so much in the airport reading this people asked me what was wrong. It's a true story and the ending is absolutely devastating. That being said, the beginning of the book shed light on a different view of Karzai than I had ever heard (I'm relatively young and the war started when I was in 8th grade). It begs the question - how much foresight can you actually have? It's an appropriate read as the war comes to a close in 2014. Also, sometimes war books just don't do it for me. Strategy can be heavy and frankly boring. In this book, the technical aspects are interesting without being dry or taking over the story - partially, perhaps, because it's guerilla warfare. less

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