They called us "lucky" : the life and afterlife of the Iraq War's hardest hit unit
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MEMOIR/GALLEGO,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Custom House, [2021]
©2021
©2021
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063045811, 0063045818 :, 0063045818, 9780063045804, 006304580X, 9780063045811
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prologue: Were we in combat? -- Harvard Marine -- Flying in -- In the suck -- Lucky Lima -- Desolation -- We just keep dying -- The worst road in Iraq -- Dead man walking -- Back to me -- Eleven is my favorite number -- Postscript: The lucky and the dead -- Coda: Democracy survives -- The Insurrection, January 6, 2021
"Opening up for the first time about his combat experience, Congressman Ruben Gallego (D, AZ) delivers a moving and unforgettable memoir of the eternal bonds forged between the Marines of Lima Company, the hardest-hit unit of the Iraq War."--