When four Green Berets were killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, the media and the American public largely focused on President Trump’s ham-fisted condolence call to one of the widows. But for Michelle Black, whose husband Bryan was one of the men killed in the attack, this shattering ordeal was made indescribably worse by vague and conflicting reports from the Army about what happened that night along the Niger-Mali border. Suddenly a widow struggling to raise two sons alone, Black was determined to discover the facts about how and why her husband and his comrades died.
In her unvarnished and honest memoir, SACRIFICE: A Gold Star Widow’s Fight for the Truth (G.P. Putnam’s Sons; May 2021), Michelle Black combines a heartfelt narrative of her family’s journey to overcome grief with a meticulously-researched and uncompromising account of the circumstances behind Bryan’s and his fellow soldiers’ deaths. Interviewing many of the mission’s survivors and relentlessly questioning the inconsistencies in the official Army reports, Black probed into the half-truths and outright lies fed to her and the other fallen heroes’ families. This obfuscation, she would come to believe, was a calculated effort to protect those higher up the chain of command.
Michelle Black – Sacrifice – The Niger Ambush of a Green Beret Team and the True Account as told by the Survivors (michelleblacksacrifice.com)
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When four Green Berets were killed in an ambush in Niger in 2017, the media and the American public largely focused on President Trump’s ham-fisted condolence call to one of the widows. But for Michelle Black, whose husband Bryan was one of the men killed in the attack, this shattering ordeal was made indescribably worse by vague and conflicting reports from the Army about what happened that night along the Niger-Mali border. Suddenly a widow struggling to raise two sons alone, Black was determined to discover the facts about how and why her husband and his comrades died.
In her unvarnished and honest memoir, SACRIFICE: A Gold Star Widow’s Fight for the Truth (G.P. Putnam’s Sons; May 2021), Michelle Black combines a heartfelt narrative of her family’s journey to overcome grief with a meticulously-researched and uncompromising account of the circumstances behind Bryan’s and his fellow soldiers’ deaths. Interviewing many of the mission’s survivors and relentlessly questioning the inconsistencies in the official Army reports, Black probed into the half-truths and outright lies fed to her and the other fallen heroes’ families. This obfuscation, she would come to believe, was a calculated effort to protect those higher up the chain of command.
Michelle Black – Sacrifice – The Niger Ambush of a Green Beret Team and the True Account as told by the Survivors (michelleblacksacrifice.com)
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