American Warfighter: Brotherhood, Survival, and Uncommon Valor in Iraq, 2003-2011
Paperback – May 4, 2016
Description
* Honorable Mention , Nonfiction Category ( Writer's Digest 's e-Book Awards)xa0" Eye opening ... an accurate account ... recommended to military leaders to incorporate into their leader development programs." ( Military Review , The Professional Journal of the U.S. Army) " This is reporting at its best ; the author's ability to step back and let people and facts to speak for themselves makes for a fully immersible experience that can result in greater insight and understanding. This is an important and necessary book and an excellent addition to the literature on the second Iraq war." ( Writer's Digest )xa0" Vivid! " ( Military Times ' year-end book guide)xa0" Masterful pace! The author's research sets the scene, but the remarkable individuals tell the engaging, harrowing, thrilling nuts and bolts of those eight turbulent years. We've been taken well into the very wee hours of the morning more than once!"xa0 (The NRA's America's 1st Freedom magazine listing of "Four Good Books" for its members to read)xa0" Great analysis and gripping first-hand accounts. American Warfighter will make you proud to be an American! It's about what went right in Iraq, featuring powerful stories of brotherhood and valor. Definitely worth reading!"xa0 (PETE HEGSETH, FOX News contributor, veterans advocate, and author of In the Arena )" Literally pulse pounding! I guarantee that you won't put the book down and it'll have you mesmerized.xa0This should be on the Marine Corps Commandant's Reading List. It's an easy read and its subject matter is OOHRAH worthy!" xa0(SOLOMON SHORTER,xa0editor of the popular military blog, Snafu !) J. Pepper Bryars began his career writing for military newspapers while serving in the Army National Guard, and he received the Army Commendation Medal for his deployment to Hungary in support of the peace-enforcement mission in Bosnia.xa0Pepper then became a newspaper reporter, spent time as an aide to a congressman and governor, and served as a presidential appointee in the Defense Department. He was also a strategic communication advisor to U.S. military forces operating in Europe, Africa, and Latin America.xa0He was twice awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Exceptional Public Service, once for service in Baghdad and a second time for work at the Pentagon.xa0His weekly opinion column is published in the Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register, Huntsville Times, the Mississippi Press, and at AL.com.Readers may contact him at jpepperbryars.com.
Features & Highlights
- Ranked as high as #25 in Amazon's "History" Category!
- This book is about what went RIGHT in the Iraq War: The untold acts of
- valor
- by some of America’s most highly decorated combat veterans, the
- brotherhood
- they shared, and the
- fighting spirit
- that kept them alive through the war’s darkest hours.Every word is true, composed from striking and detailed firsthand accounts by elite paratroopers from the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions, a Green Beret, an Army Ranger, infantrymen, combat medics, and Marines. You’ll discover their remarkable heroism as the war’s most significant operations are vividly described, including the invasion, the Battle of Nasiriyah, the taking of Baghdad, the hunt for the infamous Deck of Cards, the fight against al-Sadr’s Mahdi Militia in Najaf, the Second Battle of Fallujah, the Battle of Ramadi, the al-Qaeda insurgency throughout the al-Anbar Province, the surge, and the long withdrawal.Gripping and intimate, American Warfighter is guaranteed to take readers on an unforgettable journey of brotherhood, survival, and courage.
