Anyone who despairs of the unique’s power to modify lives has to read the story of Greg Mortenson, a homeless mountaineer who, following a 1993 climb of Pakistan’s ...
On a moonless night just weeks afterwards September 11, 2001, U.S. Exclusive Forces team ODA 574 infiltrates the mountains of southern Afghanistan together with a seemingly impossible mission: to foment a tribal revolt and force the Taliban to surrender. Armed solely together with the equipment they can carry on their backs, shockingly scant intelligence, and their ...