The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines (Häftad)
avBing West, Francis J. West
ISBN: 9780553382693 - UTGIVEN: 200409With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-day march to Baghdad that takes you behind the scenes and to the front line...
No one reporting on the war in Iraq had the unique battlefield clearance afforded the authors of this dramatic eyewitn[...]
No True Glory (Häftad)
avBing West
ISBN: 9780553383195 - UTGIVEN: 200612A former U.S. Marine and award-winning author of The March Up provides a firsthand account of American forces and their operations inside and around the insurgent Iraqi stronghold of Fallujah, drawing on interviews with senior officials and frontline troops to describe the bitter fighting for contro[...]
The Village (Pocket)
avBing West
ISBN: 9780743457576 - UTGIVEN: 200303In "Black Hawk Down, " the fight went on for a day. In "We Were Soldiers Once & Young, " the fighting lasted three days. In "The Village, " one Marine squad fought for 495 days -- half of them died.
Few American battles have been so extended, savage and personal. A handful of Americans [...]
The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan (Häftad)
avBing West
ISBN: 9780812980905 - UTGIVEN: 201202NATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this definitive account of the conflict, acclaimed war correspondent and bestselling author Bing West provides a practical way out of Afghanistan. Drawing on his expertise as both a combat-hardened Marine and a former assistant secretary of defense, West has written a tour[...]
Into the Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War (Häftad)
avDakota Meyer, Bing West
ISBN: 9780812983616 - UTGIVEN: 201306
Into The Fire (Inbunden)
avDakota Meyer, Bing West
ISBN: 9780812993400 - UTGIVEN: 201207In September of 2009, several hundred Taliban ambushed a company of Afghan soldiers and their Marine advisors. The enemy had the company pinned down, with only one exposed road leading in and out of the village. Twenty-one-year-old Marine Corporal Dakota Meyer disobeyed his commanding officer and to[...]
One Million Steps: A Marine Platoon at War (Inbunden)
avBing West
ISBN: 9781400068746 - UTGIVEN: 2014-09Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion.
Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon fought [...]
The Pepperdogs (Pocket)
avBing West
ISBN: 9781416577928 - UTGIVEN: 2007-09"The Serbs behind them were preparing to attack, and in front of them lay open ground, flat and white as a shroud. We've run a hundred miles, " Lang thought, "to come up a football field short."When a fellow Marine is kidnapped, Captain Mark Lang and his recon team, the Pepperdogs, disobey orders an[...]
A Nightmare's Prayer: A Marine Harrier Pilot's War in Afghanistan (Pocket)
avMichael Franzak, Bing West
ISBN: 9781451608076 - UTGIVEN: 201106Winner of the 2012 Colby Award and the first Afghanistan memoir ever to be written by a Marine Harrier pilot, "A Nightmare's Prayer "portrays the realities of war in the twenty-first century, taking a unique and powerful perspective on combat in Afghanistan as told by a former enlisted man turned of[...]
