Join Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, as she discusses her new novel Ashley’s War. This unique work offers the first (and only) intimate and inside look at the first-ever all-female, all-Army team to serve on the battlefield in Afghanistan alongside Special Operations Forces – all while women remained officially ‘banned’ from ground combat.

In Ashley’s War, 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, and the remarkable hero at its heart: 1^st Lt. Ashley White, who would become the first Cultural Support Team member killed in action and honored on the Army Special Operations Memorial Wall of Honor alongside the men of Ranger Regiment with whom she died on mission.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase.