| Physical Description |
xix, 232 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
By moving back and forth between his recent experiences on the ground as a journalist in Syria and its environs and his deeper past in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, ... Ackerman shares extraordinarily vivid and powerful stories of his own experiences in battle, culminating in the events of the Second Battle of Fallujah, the most intense urban combat for the Marines since Hue in Vietnam, where Ackerman's actions leading a rifle platoon saw him awarded the Silver Star. He weaves these stories into the latticework of a masterful larger reckoning, with contemporary geopolitics through his vantage as a journalist in Istanbul and with the human extremes of both bravery and horror. |
| Contents |
The revolution is over, or the music will live forever -- The triumph of death (Summer 2013) -- The fourth war (Autumn 2013) -- In Dara'a, a spark and fuel (Spring 2011) -- Expatriates (Winter 2014) -- A prayer for Austin Tice (Winter 2014) -- Black in the rainbow, Bergdahl and the whale (Summer 2014) -- The Suleimani photograph (Summer 2014) -- Safe on the Southbank (Summer 2014) -- No friends but the mountains (Autumn 2014) -- Paradox (Autumn 2004) -- What's buried in the Devil's Mountain (Winter 2015) -- My last movie night (Spring 2011) -- The imitation game at Tel Abyad (Summer 2015) -- A thousand discords (Summer 2015) -- A Swiss wedding (Summer 2015) -- Back to the city (Autumn 2016) -- A summary of action. |
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Ackerman, Elliot.
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United States. Marine Corps -- Officers -- Biography.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Biography.
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