Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield

✍ Scribed by Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach

• Book ID: 108094137
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 987 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062333810

✦ Synopsis

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.

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