Highway War A Marine Company Commander in Iraq

Name: Highway War A Marine Company Commander in Iraq
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ISBN: 9781597971065

ISBN-10: 1597971065

ISBN-13: 9781597971065

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Authors: Seth W. B. Folsom

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The Highway War is 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 War is the story of a junior officer's…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Publisher: Potomac Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.84" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.474



Illustrations


Author's Note


Prologue



The Road to War: Camp Pendleton to Kuwait



Start Point



First Class to Kuwait



LSA-5



Stir Crazy



All Times Zulu



On the DMZ



The Other Shoe Drops: Highway 7/8 to the Tigris River



Across the Border



Push to the Euphrates



Highway 1



Storm of the Century



Medevac



Dark Days



Closing in: Tigris, Nahr Diyala, and Baghdad



The Red Zone



The Elbow



Beyond the Tigris



Nahr Diyala



The Strip



Isolating Baghdad



Vortex: Tikrit, Ad Diwaniyah, and the Return Home



The Tunnel



Stabilizing Tikrit



All Good Things...



A Different War


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Glossary


Index


About the Author