Overview
"They Fought for Each Other presents a searing chronicle of the soldiers of Battalion 1-26 who confronted the worst neighborhood in Baghdad and lost more men than any battalion since the Vietnam War. Based on ""Blood Brothers,"" the award-nominated series that ran in Army Times, this is the remarkable story of a courageous military unit that sacrificed their lives to change Adhamiya, Iraq from a lawless town where insurgents roamed freely, to a safe and secure neighborhood. Army Times writer Kelly Kennedy was embedded with Charlie Company in 2007, went on patrol with the soldiers and spent hours in combat support hospitals, leading to this riveting chronicle of an Army battalion that lost 31 soldiers in Iraq. During that period, one soldier threw himself on a grenade to save his friends, a well-liked first sergeant shot himself to death in front of his troops, and a platoon staged a mutiny. The men of Charlie 1-26 would earn at least 95 combat awards, including one soldier who would go home with three Purple Hearts and a lost dream. This is a timeless story of men at war and a heartbreaking account of American sacrifice in Iraq."
Full Product Details
Author: Kelly Kennedy
Publisher: St Martin's Press
Imprint: St Martin's Press
Dimensions:
Width: 13.70cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 20.30cm
Weight: 0.295kg
ISBN: 9780312672096
ISBN 10: 0312672098
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
[Kennedy] spares no punches in revealing the gritty and the horrific and counters it with the moments of grace. -- Washington Post Book World This is one of the saddest and strongest tales to come out of the Iraq war. Please buy it. --Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times bestselling author of FIASCO and THE GAMBLE No book takes you deeper inside the sacrifice made by the American soldier in Iraq. --Sean Naylor, New York Times bestselling author of NOT A GOOD DAY TO DIE
<p> [Kennedy] spares no punches in revealing the gritty and the horrific and counters it with the moments of grace. -- Washington Post Book World <p> This is one of the saddest and strongest tales to come out of the Iraq war. Please buy it. --Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times bestselling author of FIASCO and THE GAMBLE<p> No book takes you deeper inside the sacrifice made by the American soldier in Iraq. --Sean Naylor, New York Times bestselling author of NOT A GOOD DAY TO DIE
Author Information
Kelly Kennedy served as a soldier in Desert Storm and Mogadishu, Somalia. She has written for The Salt Lake Tribune, The Portland Oregonian, The Chicago Tribune, and Army Times. She lives in Virginia.
