Fair enough - they did the majority of the fighting - but you won't find much in the book looking beyond the immediate matters of how the city was besieged and the "bad guys" driven out. This is a straightforward account of the battle of Falluja, told very much from the US viewpoint, and the US Marines' in particular. The news coverage of the wars in Iraq seemed very managed and controlled at the time, so I've always wanted to read more than the Official Version(s) we've been given over the years. This text refers to the hardcover edition. A compelling writer and captivating public speaker, Richard has established himself as a contemporary expert on the war in Iraq with a substantial radio, television, and internet following. "Perfect Valor" earned the Best Feature Documentary Award at the 2009 GI Film Festival. The Gulf War Chronicles also received recognition from MWSA in 2006 and has achieved Editor's Choice, Reader's Choice, and STAR distinction from iUniverse. In 2006, Marines in the Garden of Eden won the Silver Medal for history from the Military Writers Society of America. Taylor's award-winning documentary film, "Perfect Valor." The majority of the stories in "Perfect Valor" are pulled from the pages of New Dawn. In 2008, Richard was the military consultant for David C. He has been published in The Weekly Standard, Armchair General, Military Magazine, and The Marine Corps Gazette. Additionally, he contributed to Small Unit Actions (United States Marine Corps History Division, 2008) and was commissioned by the History Division to write a battle study of Task Force Tarawa's involvement in the 2003 invasion. He has published The Gulf War Chronicles (iUniverse, 2003 and iUniverse Star, 2008), Marines in the Garden of Eden (Berkley Caliber, 20), and US Marine in Iraq: Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003 (Osprey, 2006). He is a Vietnam-era veteran of the United States Submarine Service, husband, father of three sons, and longtime resident of Orlando, Florida. Lowry is an internationally recognized military historian, public speaker, and author. Winner of the Military Writers Society of America Gold Medal for History The result is a gripping narrative of individual sacrifice and valor that also documents the battles for future military historians. In New Dawn, military historian Richard Lowry draws on archival research, as well as the personal recollections of nearly 200 soldiers and Marines who participated in the battles for Fallujah, from the commanding generals who planned the operations to the privates who kicked in the doors. By the time the fighting ended, more than 1,400 insurgents were dead, along with ninety-five Americans (and another 1,000 wounded). It was the largest fight of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the heaviest urban combat since the Battle of Hue City, Vietnam in 1968. Also known as the Second Battle for Fallujah, Operation Phantom Fury was a protracted house-to-house and street-to-street conflict that began on November 7th and continued unabated for seven bloody weeks. The second, Operation Phantom Fury, was launched seven months later. The first, Operation Vigilant Resolve, was an aborted effort by U.S. This sprawling concrete jungle was the scene of two major U.S. Few places are as closely associated with blood, sacrifice, and valor as the ancient city Fallujah, forty miles west of Baghdad. This award–winning “powerful narrative history” presents a vividly detailed chronicle of grueling combat operations in Fallujah during the Iraq War ( Midwest Book Review). To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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