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This is the most comprehensive account of the entire 2004 campaign to secure Fallujah, and includes vivid descriptions of both Operation Vigilant Resolve and Operation al-Fajr, the detailed planning, shaping, and preparations between the battles, the valiant civil military affairs efforts, and the wars of ideas and images that accompanied both battles. This book has 200 pages filled with full-color pictures and numerous eyewitness accounts from participants, and has over 600 citations. Forward by Lieutenant General Richard F. Natonski USMC (Ret), the Commanding General of 1st Marine Division during Operation al-Fajr. A generous portion of the proceeds from the sale of this book goes to the Semper Fi Fund, the Wounded Warrior Project, and other charities that serve our men and women in uniform.

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Timothy S. McWilliams served with I Marine Expeditionary Force in Fallujah as a Strategic Mobility Officer from mid-April to mid-September 2004. He served as a Marine Corps Field Historian from July 2007 to May 2012, and deployed twice to both Iraq and Afghanistan to document U.S. Marine Corps history. He is the primary author of U.S. Marines in Battle: Fallujah, November-December 2004. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps History Division, 2014; the author of The Battle for Hearts and Minds: Uncovering the Wars of Ideas and Images Behind the Global War on Terror. Quantico, VA: Strategian Press, 2014; and the co-editor of Al-Anbar Awakening: U.S. Marine Counterinsurgency in Iraq, Volumes I and II. Quantico, VA: Marine Corps University Press, 2009. Tim is from Chico, California and currently resides in Northern Virginia. ...

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