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Free Press
September 2007
On Sale: September 4, 2007
336 pages
ISBN: 1416574719
EAN: 9781416574712
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"Blood flows over my left hand and I lose my grip on his
hair. His head snaps back against the floor. In an instant,
his fists are pummeling me. I rock from his counterblows. He
lands one on my injured jaw and the pain nearly blinds me.
He connects with my nose, and blood and snot pour down my
throat. I spit blood between my teeth and scream with him.
The two of us sound like caged dogs locked in a death match.
We are." On the night of November 10, 2004, a U.S. Army infantry
squad under Staff Sergeant David Bellavia entered the heart
of the city of Fallujah and plunged into one of the most
sustained and savage urban battles in the history of
American men at arms. With Third Platoon, Alpha Company, part of the Army's Task
Force 2/2, Bellavia and his men confronted an enemy who had
had weeks to prepare, booby-trapping houses, arranging
ambushes, rigging entire city blocks as explosives-laden
kill zones, and even stocking up on atropine, a steroid that
pumps up fighters in the equivalent of a long-lasting crack
high. Entering one house, alone, Bellavia faced the fight of
his life against six insurgents, using every weapon at his
disposal, including a knife. It is the stuff of legend and
the chief reason he is one of the great heroes of the Iraq War. Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of
hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more
than just another war story. Populated by an indelibly drawn
cast of characters, from a fearless corporal who happens to
be a Bush-hating liberal to an inspirational sergeant-major
who became the author's own lost father figure, it develops
the intensely close relationships that form between soldiers
under fire. Their friendships, tested in brutal combat,
would never be quite the same. Not all of them would make it
out of the city alive. What happened to them in their bloody
embrace with America's most implacable enemy is a harrowing,
unforgettable story of triumph, tragedy, and the resiliency
of the human spirit. A timeless portrait of the U.S. infantryman's courage, House
to House is a soldier's memoir that is destined to rank with
the finest personal accounts of men at war.
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