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Eagle Down Audiobook Summary

A Wall Street Journal national security reporter takes readers into the lives of U.S. Special Forces on the front lines against the Taliban and Islamic State, where a new and covert war is keeping Afghanistan from collapse.

“Powerful, important, and searing.” –General David Petraeus, U.S. Army (ret.), former commander, U.S. Central Command, former CIA director
In 2015, the White House claimed triumphantly “the longest war in American history is over.” But for some, it was just the beginning of a new and covert war, fought far from public view, with limited resources, little governmental oversight, and contradictory orders.
Take Hutch, a battle-worn Green Beret on his fifth combat tour in 2015, tasked with a high-stakes mission: lead a small band of men into Kunduz, recapture the city from the Taliban, and turn it over to the Afghan government. The U.S. role was meant to be a secret-after all, the war was over. Then, disaster struck. He called in an airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital, killing dozens of doctors and patients.
Or Caleb, who stepped on a bomb during a raid on a Taliban hideout in notorious Sangin. Or Andy, trapped in Marjah with a crashed Black Hawk and no air support. From Hutch to Caleb to Andy, Eagle Down is a dramatic and intimate portrayal of this ongoing forgotten war that moves from the desperate battlegrounds in muddy Afghan villages all the way to the White House.
Pulitzer Prize Finalist Jessica Donati, with big picture insight and on-the-ground grit, reveals how America came to rely on U.S. Special Forces, through successive policy directives that ramped up the war under the Obama and Trump administrations. Donati argues the covert war is failing to stabilize Afghanistan, and without a long-term plan, is undermining U.S. interests both at home and abroad.
Relying on Donati’s daring on-the-ground reporting, first-hand accounts from Special Forces, military documents, and declassified reports, Eagle Down is an account of the heroism, sacrifice, and tragedy experienced by those that continue to fight America’s longest war.

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Eagle Down Audiobook Narrator

Brittany Pressley is the narrator of Eagle Down audiobook that was written by Jessica Donati

About the Author(s) of Eagle Down

Jessica Donati is the author of Eagle Down

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Eagle Down Full Details

Narrator Brittany Pressley
Length 9 hours 1 minutes
Author Jessica Donati
Category
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date January 19, 2021
ISBN 9781549119347

Subjects

The publisher of the Eagle Down is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Afghan War (2001-), History, Military

Additional info

The publisher of the Eagle Down is Hachette Audio. The imprint is PublicAffairs. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781549119347.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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