| Description |
1 online resource (pages cm) |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Contents |
Preface: "No shit, there we were": Salman Pak backstory -- Enter the "ghost riders": 2nd Platoon, B/3-61 CAV -- Citizenship and sacrifice: reflections on military service -- Life as a countdown: drinking, training, and otherwise getting by -- Doing more with less -- "These dudes are trying to kill us" -- Indispensable friends: Mark and the interpreters -- Breaking point: fear, loss, and defeat -- Sunni versus Shia: the anatomy of sectarian civil war -- Ushering in the "surge": farewell Mada'in, hello Baghdad -- Troop shortage, troop surge: good people, bad advice -- A night to remember -- Shouting at Lindsay Graham -- Staggering to the finish line: aftermath in a shattered platoon -- Disappointing paths: Iraq, seven years on -- War in the rearview: on life after Iraq -- Coda the power of memory. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Sjursen, Daniel A.
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United States. Army. Cavalry Regiment, 61st. Squadron, 3rd.
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United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns -- Iraq -- Baghdad.
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HISTORY / Middle East / General.
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| Added Author |
Project Muse.
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| ISBN |
9781611688276 (electronic bk.) |
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1611688272 (electronic bk.) |
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