Eric Blehm Biography

Eric Blehm is the award-winning author of the New York Times bestsellers Fearless and The Only Thing Worth Dying For. His first book The Last Season was the winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and was named by Outside magazine as one of the “greatest adventure biographies ever written.” He has dedicated his life to telling the stories of those who serve.
In 1999 Blehm became the first journalist to accompany and keep pace with an elite Army Ranger unit on a training mission. His access into the Special Operations community and reportage set an important milestone for American war journalism two years before reporters began to gain widespread embedded status with the U.S. military in the War Against Terror. Blehm’s immersion with the Rangers is what led him to the previously untold story of an elite team of eleven Green Berets who operated in the hinterland of Taliban-held Afghanistan just weeks after 9/11 (The Only Thing Worth Dying For) as well as to Fearless (Waterbrook/Multnomah; Random House) the heartrending and inspiring story of Naval Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Adam Brown who overcame tremendous odds in his rise to the top tier of the U.S. military: SEAL Team Six. FEARLESS is currently being adapted for film by Relativity Media.
Blehm’s current book Legend (Crown Books Penguin RandomHouse) tells the unforgettable story of the U.S. Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War. Major General John K. “Jack” Singlaub U.S. Army (ret.) commented on Legend: “I fought beside and led U.S. Special Operations soldiers sailors and airmen during three wars—WWII Korea and Vietnam—including the men [of SOG] depicted in LEGEND. Never have I read a more powerfully honest realistic or moving account of the war in Southeast Asia. Eric Blehm masterfully encapsulates the hearts of the men their impossible mission and the quagmire of politics of the era and wraps it up in a single bloody battle that portrays the American fighting man at his best.”

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