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"Before 9/11, the rugby team at West Point learned to bond on a sports field. This is what happened when those fifteen young men became leaders in war. Filled with drama, tragedy, and personal transformations, this is the story of a unique brotherhood. It is a story of American rugby and a story of the U.S. Army created through intimate portraits of men shaped by West Point's motto: ""Duty, Honor, Country."" Some of the players deployed to Afganistan and Iraq, some to Europe. Some became infantry, others became fliers. Some saw action, some did not. One gave his life on a street in Baghdad when his convoy was hit with an IED. Two died away from the battlefield but no less tragically. Journalist Martin Pengelly, a former rugby player himself, was given extraordinary access to tell this story, a story of a brutal sport and even more brutal warfare."

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Martin Pengelly is the Washington-based breaking news correspondent for Guardian US. Born in Leeds, United Kingdom, he played rugby for Durham University and Rosslyn Park FC and worked for Rugby News, the Guardian, and the Independent before moving to the US in 2012. Since then, he has written about politics, books, and rugby in America. His work has also appeared in Sports Illustrated and the New York Times. Brotherhood is his first book. Formerly a collegiate Academic All-American baseball player, bilingual sales rep (Spanish), Federal Reserve intern, and Levi's Denim Fit model, Alex Mortensen brings world experience to each of his roles. Twenty-plus years of athletics taught him discipline and a strong Midwest work ethic. He still enjoys football, baseball, baking, language (Spanish-fluent, French and German-novice), golf, and learning. H. R. McMaster is a 1984 graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point. He holds an MA and a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and taught numerous command and staff positions in armored and cavalry units. He has served as the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center and Deputy Commanding General, Futures of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command, in addition to previous postings as Commanding General of the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Benning and director of the Combined Joint Interagency Task Force-Shafafiyat at the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. During the Gulf War, he commanded Eagle Troop, 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment in combat against Iraq's Republican Guard.

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