{"product_id":"eagle-down-the-last-special-forces-fighting-the-forever-war","title":"Eagle Down: The Last Special Forces Fighting the Forever War","description":"A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of frontline U.S. special operations troops fighting to keep the Taliban and Islamic State from overthrowing the U.S.-backed government in the final years of the war in Afghanistan.\n\nA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\n\n“Powerful, important, and searing.\" —General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command, former CIA director\n\nIn 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly that “the longest war in American history” was over. But for some, it was just the beginning of a new war, fought by Special Operations Forces, with limited resources, little governmental oversight, and contradictory orders.\n\nWith big picture insight and on-the-ground grit, Jessica Donati shares the stories of the impossible choices these soldiers must make. After the fall of a major city to the Taliban that year, Hutch, a battle-worn Green Beret on his fifth combat tour was ordered on a secret mission to recapture it and inadvertently called in an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing dozens. Caleb stepped on a bomb during a mission in notorious Sangin. Andy was trapped with his team during a raid with a crashed Black Hawk and no air support.\n\nThrough successive policy directives under the Obama and Trump administrations, America came to rely almost entirely on US Special Forces, and without a long-term plan, failed to stabilize Afghanistan, undermining US interests both at home and abroad.\n\nEagle Down is a riveting account of the heroism, sacrifice, and tragedy experienced by those that fought America’s longest war.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 154176255X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.154176255X.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Donati, Jessica\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41529457279034,"sku":"DBV.154176255X.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/154176255X-0.jpg?v=1784172144","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/eagle-down-the-last-special-forces-fighting-the-forever-war","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}