The warriors of Anbar : the Marines who crushed Al Qaeda : the greatest untold story of the Iraq War / Ed Darack ; foreword by Colonel James E. Donnellan, USMC (Ret.).
A riveting account of how a battalion of Marines faced off against the most brutal of Al Qaeda at its most desperate and vicious moment--and how the Marines decisively crushed the terrorists.
Record details
- ISBN: 0306922657
- ISBN: 9780306922657
- Physical Description: x, 246 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, maps, ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York, NY : Da Capo, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Foreword by Colonel James E. Donnellan, USMC (Ret.) -- Introduction: the toughest, most brutal fight -- Prologue: Against an army of phantoms on a battlefield of shadows -- Swirling winds -- Toward the battle handover -- The exploding storm -- Over before it even really began? -- Brothers of the fight -- The everyday fight -- AO on fire -- Fly like a winged bat monkey from hell -- "Drill"ing snipers with a shotgun -- Whiskey's opening fight -- Mirrors of trust and deceit -- COIN and the jump command post -- Glimmers and darkness -- The intimacy of it all -- A haven of scum and villainy -- A breeze of change -- Nature of the fight -- Life, death -- River City -- Dynamic AO -- To the breaking point -- Shifting winds of perseverance and strength -- Christmas -- At war with a spreadsheet and a map -- Flare-ups of tragedy amid a dying firestorm -- COIN culmination and a caravan -- Colors and crying -- Epilogue: legacy.
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