Echo in Ramadi: The Firsthand Story of US Marines in Iraq’s Deadliest City

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“In war, destruction is all over. It eats the whole thing around you. Every so often it eats at you.” —Major Scott Huesing, Echo Company Commander

From the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, two-hundred-fifty Marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment fought day by day in the dangerous, dense city streets of Ramadi, Iraq all through the Multi-National Forces Surge ordered by President George W. Bush. The Marines’ mission: to kill or capture anti-Iraqi forces. Their experience: like being in Hell.

Now Major Scott A. Huesing, the commander who led Echo Company through Ramadi, takes readers back to the streets of Ramadi in a visceral, gripping portrayal of up to date urban combat. Bound together by brotherhood, honor, and the horror they faced, Echo’s Marines battled day by day at the frontline of a totally different more or less war, without rules, built on chaos. In Echo in Ramadi, Huesing brings these resilient, resolute young men to life and shows how the savagery of urban combat left indelible scars on their bodies, psyches, and souls. Like war classics We Were Soldiers, The Yellow Birds, and Generation Kill, Echo in Ramadi is an unforgettable capsule of one company’s experience of war in order to leave readers stunned.

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