American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant

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Lawrence of Arabia meets Sebastian Junger’s War on 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 The us’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’ believe and become them into a reliable ally with whom lets defeat the Taliban and counter al-Qaeda networks. The army’s top brass, including General David Petraeus, commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, approved, and Gant was once tasked with implementing his controversial strategy.

Veteran war correspondent Ann Scott Tyson first spoke with Gant when he was once 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 revel in. After which they fell in love.

Illustrated with dozens of photographs, American Spartan is their remarkable story—one of the vital riveting, emotional narratives of wartime ever published.

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