We Were One Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took Fallujah

by O'Donnell, Patrick K.

• ISBN13: 9780306815737
• ISBN10: 0306815737
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-10-30
• Publisher: Da Capo Press

Summary

Five months after being deployed to Iraq, Lima Company's 1st Platoon, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, found itself in Fallujah, embroiled in some of the most intense house-to-house, hand-to-hand urban combat since World War II. In the city's bloody streets, they came face-to-face with the enemy-radical insurgents high on adrenaline, fighting to a martyr's death, and suicide bombers approaching from every corner. Award-winning author and historian Patrick O'Donnell stood shoulder to shoulder with this modern band of brothers as they marched and fought through the streets of Fallujah, and he stayed with them as the casualties mounted.

Author Biography

Patrick K. O’Donnell is the author of three previous books, including Beyond Valor, winner of the prestigious William E. Colby Award for Outstanding Military History. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Prologue	p. xiii
Boots	p. 1
A Grunt's Grunt	p. 13
Into the Cauldron	p. 29
Trojan Horses	p. 41
Feints	p. 49
The Die Is Cast	p. 61
"I'm Gonna Take You to Hell"	p. 79
"Steel Rain"	p. 93
"Allahu Akbar"-God Is Great	p. 103
Back into the Fray	p. 115
A Whiter Shade of Pale	p. 131
"So Far Together"	p. 145
Full Circle	p. 155
The Wolves of Islam	p. 165
D9s	p. 183
Rest	p. 195
Requiem	p. 205
Home	p. 211
Afterword: Why I Went to Iraq and Wrote this Book	p. 217
Chronology-1st Platoon and the Battle of Fallujah	p. 225
Where They Are Now	p. 227
Notes	p. 233
Index	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 243
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