Robinson, Linda. Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of the Special Forces. New York: PublicAffairs, 2004.
Weiss, Mitch, and Kevin Maurer. No Way Out: A Story of Valor in the Mountains of Afghanistan. New York: Berkeley Caliber, 2012.
The 75th Ranger Regiment
Black, Robert W. Rangers in World War II. New York: Presidio Press, 1992.
Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War. New York: Grove Press, 1999.
Couch, Dick. Sua Sponte: The Forging of the Modern American Ranger. New York: Berkeley Caliber, 2012.
Jenkins, Leo. Lest We Forget: An Army Ranger Medic’s Story. Leo Jenkins, 2013.
Lock, John D. To Fight with Intrepidity . . . The Complete History of the U.S. Army Rangers, 1622 to Present. 2nd ed. Tucson: Fenestra Books, 2001.
Posey, Edward L. The US Army’s First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers: The 2nd Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) in the Korean War, 1950–1951. New York: Savas Beatie, 2009.
Women in the Military
Biank, Tanya. Undaunted: The Real Story of America’s Servicewomen in Today’s Military. New York: New American Library, 2013.
Blanton, DeAnn, and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
Holm, Jeanne. Women in the Military: An Unfinished Revolution. Novato: Presidio Press, 1992.
Williams, Kayla, and Michael E. Staub. Love My Rifle More than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army. New York: W. W. Norton, 2005.
Wise, James E., Jr., and Scott Baron. Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006.
How to Get Involved with Veterans’ Issues
Here are just a few suggestions:
First Lieutenant Ashley White-Stumpf Scholarship Fund
http://ashleywhitestumpf.com/scholarship/
American Women Veterans
http://americanwomenveterans.org/home/
Bob Woodruff Foundation
http://bobwoodrufffoundation.org
Final Salute Inc.
www.finalsaluteinc.org
Fisher House Foundation
Bob Woodruff Foundation
http://bobwoodrufffoundation.org
Grace After Fire
www.graceafterfire.org
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
http://iava.org
National Military Family Association
www.militaryfamily.org
Onward Veterans
http://schultzfamilyfoundation.org
Ranger Scholarship Fund
www.rangersscholarshipfund.org
Special Operations Warrior Foundation
www.specialops.org
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
www.taps.org
Voices from War
http://voicesfromwar.org
Women in Military Service for America Memorial Foundation
www.womensmemorial.org/About/welcome.html
Words After War
www.wordsafterwar.org
Wounded Warrior Project
www.woundedwarriorproject.org
About the Author
GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON is a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a contributor to Atlantic Media’s Defense One, writing on national security and foreign policy issues. In 2004 she left ABC News in Washington to earn her MBA at Harvard, where she began writing about entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Rwanda. She is the bestselling author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana and has written for Newsweek, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, CNN.com, and the Daily Beast, as well as the World Bank and Harvard Business School. Her opening talk at 2011’s TEDx-Women later became a TED Talk of the Day, and she appears frequently on broadcast outlets to discuss topics including U.S. foreign policy. You can find more of her work at www.gaylelemmon.com.
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Epilogue: The funeral of 1st Lt. Ashley White (Courtesy of the White family)
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