This is the personal side of battle, where emotion, courage, and strength are stretched to the limits.
In one of the most compelling combat narratives ever written, Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, Army infantry platoon leader, gives a teeth-rattling, first-hand account of eleven straight days of heavy house-to-house fighting during the climactic second battle of Fallujah. His actions in the firefight, which included killing five insurgents in hand-to-hand combat, earned Bellavia the Bronze Star, the Silver Star, and New York state’s highest military honor, the Conspicuous Service Cross. He has been nominated for the Medal of Honor and for the Army’s second highest combat medal, the Distinguished Service Cross.
A decorated war hero who killed five Iraqi insurgents in the bloody second battle of Fallujah, David Bellavia recounts his time in the U.S. military in this ravaging and deeply personal memoir. Along with writer and historian John Bruning, Bellavia crafts a remarkable account filled with the horror and heartache of war. It's a daunting task for narrator Ray Porter to relay the facts of this audiobook while also assuming the roles of the various hard-nosed characters and capturing the daily bloodshed. He never quite manages to vividly place his listeners inside the battle as he depicts events. Bellavia's account is so graphic and taut that he himself may be the ideal narrator. Nevertheless, Porter offers a concentrated reading that will surely engage listeners. L.B. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
Publishers Weekly...
"[W]ill satisfy readers who like their testosterone undiluted…a precise, hour-by-hour account of the fighting, featuring repeated heroic feats and brave sacrifice from Americans."
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