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American Spartan - The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant (Paperback)
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American Spartan - The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant (Paperback)
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List price R535
Loot Price R475
Discovery Miles 4 750
You Save R60 (11%)
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Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger's War in this unique,
incendiary, and dramatic true story of heroism and heartbreak in
Afghanistan written by a Pulitzer Prize-nominated war
correspondent. Army Special Forces Major Jim Gant changed the face
of America's war effort in Afghanistan. A decorated Green Beret who
spent years in Afghanistan and Iraq training indigenous fighters,
Gant argued for embedding autonomous units with tribes across
Afghanistan to earn the Afghans' trust and transform them into a
reliable ally with whom we could defeat the Taliban and counter
al-Qaeda networks. The military's top brass, including General
David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, approved,
and Gant was tasked with implementing his controversial strategy.
Veteran war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson first spoke with Gant
when he was awarded the Silver Star in 2007. Tyson soon came to
share Gant's vision, so she accompanied him to Afghanistan, risking
her life to embed with the tribes and chronicle their experience.
And then they fell in love. Illustrated with dozens of photographs,
American Spartan is their remarkable story-one of the most
riveting, emotional narratives of wartime ever published.
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