First Casualty by Toby Harden was very eye opening. I learned a lot and researched more having reading this book. If you want to educate yourself on the this war, this is your book.

Sealing defeat from the jaws of victory. The United Sates and a small group of paramilitary officers and Special Forces invaded a landlocked country thousands of miles away and quickly defeated a tyrannical government responsible for harboring the terrorists who planned the September 11th Attacks. This is the story of those brave men and most importantly thought differently about how to accomplish what needed accomplishing.

My eyes were opened to events I, admittedly, had little to zero real knowledge of before reading this book. I found myself eagerly reading page by page, searching for more and clearer understanding. That is not typical for me with books of this nature, but it is written clearly and interestingly and I LOVED it!

I cannot recommend this enough! Well done.

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Who knew. This is the other side of the story. Not the one hawked for money by the press or hawked for other gain by the self-serving or poorly advised politicians, but the one that sets it all up and the brave souls who died trying to get the job done speedily and right. This is the real deal, warts and all. Should be on military required reading list.
I requested and received a free ebook copy from Little, Brown and Company via NetGalley. Thank you.