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Ashley's War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield
By Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
- ISBN
- 9780062333810 9780062333834
- Publisher
- Harper
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Reviewed on July 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
Journalist Lemmon (The Dressmaker of Khair Khana) delivers an inspiring account of the women chosen by the U.S. Army to serve as combat agents during the conflict in Afghanistan. By 2010, the army recognized that it could no longer ignore the need for female operatives to help gather intelligence in this war zone. (Cultural differences virtually forbid male personnel from approaching Afghan women.) As a result, a program for fema...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
