Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City

Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq's Deadliest City

<b>Winner of the 2019 Gold Medal Awar</b><B>d, Best Military History Memoir, Military Writers Society of America</B><BR> <BR> <b>Ranked in the "Top 10 Military Books of 2018" by <i>Military Times. </i></b><BR> <BR> "In war, destruction is everywhere. It eats everything around you. Sometimes it eats at you." —Major Scott Huesing, Echo Company Commander<BR> <BR> From the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, two-hundred-fifty Marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment fought daily in the dangerous, dense city streets of Ramadi, Iraq during the Multi-National Forces Surge ordered by President George W. Bush. The Marines' mission: to kill or capture anti-Iraqi forces. Their experience: like being in Hell.<BR> <BR> Now Major Scott A. Huesing, the commander who led Echo Company through Ramadi, takes readers back to the streets of Ramadi in a visceral, gripping portrayal of modern urban combat. Bound together by brotherhood, honor, and the horror they faced, Echo's Marines battled day-to-day on the frontline of a totally different kind of war, without rules, built on chaos. In <i>Echo in Ramadi</i>, Huesing brings these resilient, resolute young men to life and shows how the savagery of urban combat left indelible scars on their bodies, psyches, and souls. Like war classics <i>We Were Soldiers</i>, <i>The Yellow Birds</i>, and <i>Generation Kill</i>, <i>Echo in Ramadi</i> is an unforgettable capsule of one company's experience of war that will leave readers stunned.