The Highway War

by Folsom, Seth W. B.

• ISBN13: 9781597971065
• ISBN10: 1597971065
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-31
• Publisher: Potomac Books Inc

Summary

****Winner of the 2007 Military Writers Society of America's Gold Medal Award for "Best Memoir"****The Highway Waris the compelling Iraq War memoir of then-Capt. Seth Folsom, commanding officer of Delta Company, First Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, U.S. Marine Corps. Mounted in eight-wheeled LAVs (light armored vehicles), this unit of 130 Marines and sailors was one of the first into Iraq in March 2003. It fought on the front lines for the war's entire offensive phase, from the Kuwaiti border through Baghdad to Tikrit. Folsom's thoughtful account focuses on his maturation as a combat leader'”and as a human being enduring the austere conditions of combat and coming to terms with loss of life on both sides. Moreover, The Highway Waris the story of a junior officer's relationships with his company's young Marines, for whose lives he was responsible, and with his superior officers. Folsom covers numerous unusual military actions and conveys truthfully the pace, stress, excitement, mistakes, and confusion of modern ground warfare. The Highway Waris destined to be a Marine Corps classic.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Author's Note	p. xi
Prologue	p. xvii
The Road to War: Camp Pendleton to Kuwait
Start Point	p. 3
First Class to Kuwait	p. 9
LSA-5	p. 21
Stir Crazy	p. 37
All Times Zulu	p. 49
On the DMZ	p. 69
The Other Shoe Drops: Highway 7/8 to the Tigris River
Across the Border	p. 93
Push to the Euphrates	p. 105
Highway 1	p. 123
Storm of the Century	p. 143
Medevac	p. 161
Dark Days	p. 183
Closing in: Tigris, Nahr Diyala, and Baghdad
The Red Zone	p. 207
The Elbow	p. 229
Beyond the Tigris	p. 243
Nahr Diyala	p. 265
The Strip	p. 283
Isolating Baghdad	p. 303
Vortex: Tikrit, Ad Diwaniyah, and the Return Home
The Tunnel	p. 325
Stabilizing Tikrit	p. 345
All Good Things...	p. 365
A Different War	p. 381
Epilogue	p. 395
Acknowledgments	p. 407
Glossary	p. 409
Index	p. 417
About the Author	p. 425
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