Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is the author of NYT bestsellers. Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield is made into a major motion picture at Universal. The Daughters of Kobani is the story of women who battled ISIS town by town, street by street since 2013. These women served with  America’s ground forces in the struggle to defeat the Islamic State. 
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has held leadership roles in emerging technology and national security firms. For a decade, she covered politics for ABC News. She is a frequent speaker on national security topics and appeared regularly on MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and NPR. Her written work has appeared in major periodicals. 

The History & Biography Book Group will read this as the July selection, and the author talk will serve as the July meeting. The program, however, is open to anyone, and it is not necessary to be part of the book group to attend or to check out the book.
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