No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
Written by Bing West
Narrated by Robertson Dean
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"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it."-Senator John McCain
Fallujah: Iraq's most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were left dead.
The epic battle for Fallujah reveals the startling connections between policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of war.
The Marines had planned to slip into Fallujah "as soft as fog." But after four American contractors were brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an attack on the city-against the advice of the Marines. The assault sparked a political firestorm, and the Marines were forced to withdraw amid controversy and confusion-only to be ordered a second time to take a city that had become an inferno of hate and the lair of the archterrorist al-Zarqawi.
Based on months spent with the battalions in Fallujah and hundreds of interviews at every level-senior policy makers, negotiators, generals, and soldiers and Marines on the front lines-No True Glory is a testament to the bravery of the American soldier and a cautionary tale about the complex-and often costly-interconnected roles of policy, politics, and battle in the twenty-first century.
Bing West
Francis J. "Bing" West served in Vietnam as a Marine infantry officer, and later as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, Dean of Research at the Naval War College, an analyst at the RAND Corporation, and a lead CNN commentator during Desert Storm. A frequent contributor to defense journals, West is also the author nine books.
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Reviews for No True Glory
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A gritty story of what the Marines who cleared Fallujah went through. It shows what courage and tenacity can accomplish in the face of extreme danger. I read this book while in North Carolina and in Kuwait mobilizing for a deployment to Iraq, and the book helped me keep my experiences in perspective.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. The author captures the ebb and flow of combat operations like only someone who has been there. It is an unflinching examination of what the Marines of RCTs 1 and 7 experienced. This story is an excellent if brutal example of urban combat. The author also takes a good hard look at the decision making process of the most senior military and civilian leaders involved. The brilliantly narrated action sequences of Marine Infantry Squads in battle again and again prove that when it comes to issues of warfare, there is nothing quite as important as boots on the ground!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is not military memoir so we get to read an analysis depicting the main characters involved in the conflict, that's the US military commanders, the sheiks, the Hussein generals, the untrustworthy iraqui allies ... is really a great document that it also shows a few scenes of the combat action (House from Hell). It's notable that such amount of information is presented in a way that never confuses the reader.