Title They called us "lucky" : the life and afterlife of the Iraq War's hardest hit unit / Ruben Gallego with Jim DeFelice.

Publication Info.	New York : Custom House, [2021]
	©2021.

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Edition	First edition.
Description	323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-323).
Contents	Prologue: Were we in combat? -- Harvard Marine -- Flying in -- In the suck -- Lucky Lima -- Desolation -- We just keep dying -- The worst road in Iraq -- Dead man walking -- Back to me -- Eleven is my favorite number -- Postscript: The lucky and the dead -- Coda: Democracy survives - The Insurrection, January 6, 2021 -- Collaborator's note: There is no such thing as a "part-time" Marine.
Summary	"Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Gallego, Ruben, 1979-
	Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.
	United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 25th. Battalion, 3rd. Lima Company -- Biography.
	Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns -- Iraq -- Ḥadīthah.
	Marines -- United States -- Biography.
	Legislators -- United States -- Biography.
	United States. Congress. House -- Biography.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Hispanic & Latino.
	HISTORY / Military / Iraq War (2003-2011).
	United States. Congress. House. (OCoLC)fst00536930
	United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 25th. Battalion, 3rd. Lima Company. (OCoLC)fst01800174
	Legislators. (OCoLC)fst00995828
	Marines. (OCoLC)fst01010044
	Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
	Iraq. (OCoLC)fst01205757
	Iraq -- Ḥadīthah. (OCoLC)fst01303582
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Iraq War (2003-2011) (OCoLC)fst01802311
Chronological Term	2003-2011
Genre/Form	Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
	Personal narratives -- American. (OCoLC)fst01424071
	Biographies.
	Personal narratives.
Added Author	DeFelice, Jim, 1956- author.
Added Title	Life and afterlife of the Iraq War's hardest hit unit
Other Form:	Online version: Gallego, Ruben. They called us "lucky" First edition. New York : Custom House, [2021] 9780063045828 (DLC) 2021038046
ISBN	9780063045811 (hardcover)
	0063045818 (hardcover)
	9780063045804 (trade paperback)
	006304580X (trade paperback)
	9780063045828 (ebook)

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