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A Story of War and Family
Putnam
March 2007
On Sale: March 1, 2007
320 pages
ISBN: 0399153829
EAN: 9780399153822
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
From ABC White House
correspondent Martha Raddatz, the story of a brutal
forty-eight-hour
firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of
war not just
on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back at
home.
In April 2004, soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division were
on a routine
patrol in Sadr City, Iraq, when they came under surprise
attack. Over
the course of the next forty-eight hours, 8 Americans would
be killed
and more than 70 wounded. Back home, as news of the attack began
filtering in, the families of these same men, neighbors in
Fort Hood,
Texas, feared the worst. In time, some of the women in their
circle
would receive "the call"-the notification that a husband or
brother had
been killed in action. So the families banded together in
anticipation
of the heartbreak that was certain to come.
The
firefight in
Sadr City marked the beginning of the Iraqi insurgency, and
Martha
Raddatz has written perhaps the most riveting account of
hand-to-hand
combat to emerge from the war in Iraq. This intimate
portrait of the
close-knit community of families Stateside-the unsung heroes
of the
military -distinguishes The Long Road Home from other
stories
of modern warfare, showing the horror, terror, bravery, and
fortitude
not just of the soldiers who were wounded and killed but
also of the
wives and children whose lives now are forever changed.
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