By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
ISBN-10: 0062333836
ISBN-13: 9780062333834
From the writer of the hot York occasions bestseller The designer of Khair Khana comes the poignant and gripping tale of a groundbreaking staff of woman American warriors who served along exact Operations infantrymen at the battlefield in Afghanistan—including Ashley White, a cherished soldier who died serving her country’s cause.
In 2010, the U.S. military particular Operations Command created Cultural help groups, a pilot software to place girls at the battlefield along eco-friendly Berets and armed forces Rangers on delicate missions in Afghanistan. the belief used to be that ladies may well entry areas and folks that had remained out of achieve, and will construct relationships—woman to woman—in ways in which male infantrymen in a conservative, conventional kingdom couldn't. although formally banned from wrestle, girl infantrymen might be “attached” to assorted groups, and for the 1st time, ladies through the military heard the decision to attempt out for this specified ops program.
In Ashley’s conflict, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon makes use of exhaustive firsthand reporting and a finely tuned realizing of the complexities of warfare to inform the tale of CST-2, a unit of ladies hand-picked from around the military, and the outstanding hero at its middle: 1st Lt. Ashley White, who may turn into the 1st Cultural help group member killed in motion and the 1st CST remembered at the military exact Operations Memorial Wall of Honor along the military Rangers with whom she served.
Transporting readers into this little-known international of fierce ladies certain jointly by way of valor, chance, and the will to serve, Ashley’s struggle is a riveting strive against narrative and a testomony to the unbreakable bonds born of war.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is a Senior Fellow on the Council on international kinfolk and a contributor to The Atlantic’s safeguard One. She is the bestselling writer of The fashion designer of Khair Khana and writes usually for major media retailers. A Fulbright student and Robert Bosch Fellow, she started reporting from clash areas in the course of MBA research on the Harvard enterprise institution following approximately a decade protecting politics at ABC information.
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