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A Marine Platoon's Story Of Courage, Leadership, And Brotherhood
Random House
March 2009
On Sale: March 10, 2009
Featuring: Donovon Campbell
336 pages
ISBN: 1400067731
EAN: 9781400067732
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
After graduating from Princeton, Donovan Campbell, motivated
by his unwavering patriotism and commitment, decided to join
the service, realizing that becoming a Marine officer would
allow him to give back to his country, engage in the world,
and learn to lead. In this immediate, thrilling, and
inspiring memoir, Campbell recounts a timeless and
transcendent tale of brotherhood, courage, and sacrifice. As
commander of a forty-man infantry platoon called Joker One,
Campbell had just months to train and transform a ragtag
group of brand-new Marines into a first-rate cohesive
fighting unit, men who would become his family: Sergeant
Leza, the house intellectual who read Che Guevara; Sergeant
Mariano Noriel, the “Filipino ball of fire” who would become
Campbell’s closest confidant and friend; Lance Corporal
William Feldmeir, a narcoleptic who fell asleep during
battle; and a lieutenant known simply as “the Ox,” whose
stubborn aggressiveness would be more curse than blessing. Campbell and his men were assigned to Ramadi, that capital
of the Sunni-dominated Anbar province that was an explosion
just waiting to happen. And when it did happen–with the
chilling cries of “Jihad, Jihad, Jihad!” echoing from
minaret to minaret–Campbell and company were there to
protect the innocent, battle the insurgents, and pick up the
pieces. After seven months of day-to-day, house-to-house
combat, nearly half of Campbell’s platoon had been wounded,
a casualty rate that went beyond that of any Marine or Army
unit since Vietnam. Yet unlike Fallujah, Ramadi never fell
to the enemy. Told by the man who led the unit of
hard-pressed Marines, Joker One is a gripping tale of a
leadership, loyalty, faith, and camaraderie throughout the
best and worst of times.
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