Eric Blehm. The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan New York, NY: Harper, January 19th, 2010. 400 pp.
Rating: 5 out of 5
This is the story of a US Special Forces team called ODA 574 and their mission in sourthern Afghanistan in the early days of the US invasion after September 11th. The author interviewed the survivors of the team, other military servicemembers who interacted with the team and also poured over official government documents. Most amazing of all is the fact that the author got to interview Hamid Karzai himself, the president of Afghanistan whom at that time was little known. This is the story of the tip of the spear of the US military bringing the war to the very home of the Taliban in Southern Afghanistan.
