| #23966 in Books | Berkley Trade | 2008-07-01 | 2008-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.99 x.95 x5.96l,1.03 | File type: PDF | 400 pages | Great product!||15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Wright depicts U.S. ground warfare with unremitting honesty and realism|By Dan Berger|This powerful book depicts American ground warfare in the 21st century with unremitting honesty and realism. Journalist Evan Wright embeds with a unit that becomes the tip of the Iraq invasion’s spear in 2003.
First Recon is an elite Marine battalion, lightly armored, traine|From Publishers Weekly|Wright rode into Iraq on March 20, 2003, with a platoon of First Reconnaissance Battalion Marines—the Marine Corps' special operations unit whose motto is "Swift, Silent, Deadly." These highly trained and highly motivated First Recon
Based on Evan Wright's National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series.
Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecog...
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