Ashley's War

  • Autor: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
  • Narrador: Kathe Mazur
  • Editora: HarperCollins USA
  • Duração: 10:01:39
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Sinopse

In 2010, the Army created Cultural Support Teams, a secret pilot program to insert women alongside Special Operations soldiers battling in Afghanistan. The Army reasoned that women could play a unique role on Special Ops teams: accompanying their male colleagues on raids and, while those soldiers were searching for insurgents, questioning the mothers, sisters, daughters and wives living at the compound. Their presence had a calming effect on enemy households, but more importantly, the CSTs were able to search adult women for weapons and gather crucial intelligence. They could build relationships—woman to woman—in ways that male soldiers in an Islamic country never could.

In Ashley's War, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon uses on-the-ground reporting and a finely tuned understanding of the complexities of war to tell the story of CST-2, a unit of women hand-picked from the Army to serve in this highly specialized and challenging role. The pioneers of CST-2 proved for the first time, at least to some grizzled Special Operations soldiers, that women might be physically and mentally tough enough to become one of them.

The price of this professional acceptance came in personal loss and social isolation: the only people who really understand the women of CST-2 are each other. At the center of this story is a friendship cemented by "Glee," video games, and the shared perils and seductive powers of up-close combat. At the heart of the team is the tale of a beloved and effective soldier, Ashley White.

Much as she did in her bestselling The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Lemmon transports readers to a world they previously had no idea existed: a community of women called to fulfill the military's mission to "win hearts and minds" and bound together by danger, valor, and determination. Ashley's War is a gripping combat narrative and a moving story of friendship—a book that will change the way readers think about war and the meaning of service.

Capítulos

  • 01-Ashley's War

    Duração: 55s
  • 02-Author's Note

    Duração: 03min
  • 03-Preface

    Duração: 12min
  • 04-Part I Chapter One

    Duração: 37min
  • 05-Chapter Two

    Duração: 26min
  • 06-Chapter Three

    Duração: 46min
  • 07-Chapter Four

    Duração: 51min
  • 08-Chapter Five

    Duração: 32min
  • 09-Chapter Six

    Duração: 44min
  • 10-Chapter Seven

    Duração: 57min
  • 11-Part II Chapter Eight

    Duração: 41min
  • 12-Chapter Nine

    Duração: 14min
  • 13-Chapter Ten

    Duração: 43min
  • 14-Chapter Eleven

    Duração: 25min
  • 15-Chapter Twelve

    Duração: 34min
  • 16-Chapter Thirteen

    Duração: 09min
  • 17-Part III Chapter Fourteen

    Duração: 48min
  • 18-Chapter Fifteen

    Duração: 16min
  • 19-Chapter Sixteen

    Duração: 16min
  • 20-Chapter Seventeen

    Duração: 25min
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