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Engrossing... with a wealth of first-hand accounts.... Coverage of the Khafji engagement alone is worth the book. - Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cureton, author of U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: With the 1st Marine Division in Desert Shield and Desert Storm; The focus on 'middle-level managers' makes this book of interest and value. The accounts are good.... Following members of a single battalion provides a unity to the story,... and the different perspectives convey the confusion of combat. The language is raw, but authentic.... Current fighting, some twelve years after these events, makes it significant narrative of the past as prelude. - Charles D. Melson, Chief Historian, Marine Corps Historical Center

Engrossing... with a wealth of first-hand accounts.... Coverage of the Khafji engagement alone is worth the book. - Lieutenant Colonel Charles Cureton, author of U.S. Marines in the Persian Gulf, 1990-1991: With the 1st Marine Division in Desert Shield and Desert Storm; The focus on 'middle-level managers' makes this book of interest and value. The accounts are good.... Following members of a single battalion provides a unity to the story,... and the different perspectives convey the confusion of combat. The language is raw, but authentic.... Current fighting, some twelve years after these events, makes it significant narrative of the past as prelude. - Charles D. Melson, Chief Historian, Marine Corps Historical Center

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Otto J. Lehrack is an independent scholar and author of three books, including No Shining Armor: The Marines at War in Vietnam, An Oral History, which was a 1992 Military Book Club Main Selection, and The First Battle: Operation Starlite and the Beginning of the Blood Debt in Vietnam.

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