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message 1: by Regnery (last edited Feb 21, 2018 09:27AM) (new) - rated it 5 stars

Regnery Publishing | 12 comments Hi folks! There's a small error in the description of Echo in Ramadi, a new Iraq War memoir (it says ten months when really Echo Company's campaign only lasted 8 or so months, it seems like a small thing but the author is a veteran Marine and doesn't want to misrepresent his service in any way!) Could someone replace the current description with the below copy? THANK YOU SO MUCH! The book just launched yesterday.

"In war, destruction is everywhere. It eats everything around you. Sometimes it eats at you." —Major Scott Huesing, Echo Company Commander

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.

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 Echo in Ramadi, 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 We Were Soldiers, The Yellow Birds, and Generation Kill, Echo in Ramadi is an unforgettable capsule of one company's experience of war that will leave readers stunned.


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