ISBN: 9780451230003

Description: xii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations maps

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Prologue: the banks of the Euphrates
• The gate of the Himalayas
• The edge of the Arabian Desert
• The city of death
• The earth was on fire
• A time to strike
• Before the dawn
• A baptism in blood
• The awakening of Iraq
• The men on the wall
• A cocky son of a bitch
• The turning point
• A soldier's dream
• Epilogue: a soldier's legacy.

LCCN: 2011003175

Control Number: 698746

Subjects:

• Counterinsurgency -- Iraq -- Anbåar (Province)
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Biography.
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Campaigns -- Iraq -- Anbåar (Province)
• Patriquin, Travis, 1974-2006.
• United States. Army -- Biography.

Genre: Biographies.