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Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope
by: Michael Yon

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Dewey Decimal Number: 956
EAN: 9780980076325
ISBN: 0980076323
Label: Richard Vigilante Books
Manufacturer: Richard Vigilante Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher: Richard Vigilante Books
Studio: Richard Vigilante Books
Sales Rank: 4515

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Book Description:
Never underestimate the American soldier. That's the moral of former Green Beret Michael Yon's brilliant battle-by-battle, block-by-block tale of how America's new `greatest generation' of soldiers is turning defeat and disaster into victory and hope in Iraq.

The American soldier is the reason General David Petraeus's brilliant strategy of moving our soldiers off isolated bases and out among the Iraqi people is working. Working to find and kill terrorists, reclaim neighborhoods, and help lead Iraq to democracy.

Yon is no cheerleader. According to the New York Times, he has logged more time in combat situations in Iraq than any other reporter. When failed American leadership was driving Iraq into chaos and civil war, nobody told the story earlier or better than Michael Yon. The top brass was so mad that twice the U.S. military denied him access to Iraq.

So Yon has supreme credibility when he says that we are finally winning, not primarily with our overwhelming technology, not with shock and awe destruction, but with the even more powerful force of American values--with the courage and leadership, strength and compassion of our soldiers.

Iraqis respect strength, says Yon. They know American soldiers are "great-hearted warriors" who vanquish the Al Qaeda terror gangs that "raped too many women and boys, cut off too many heads, brought drugs into too many neighborhoods."

But Iraqis also discovered that these great warriors are even happier helping rebuild a clinic or a school or a neighborhood. They learned the American soldier is not only the most dangerous man in the world, but the best man too. That's what turned defeat into victory.

Here is the true, untold story of the American soldier and the courage and values that are bringing victory for America--and Iraq.

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- Well Done!
Michael Yon ends his book, The Moment of Truth in Iraq, with a question: "The war isn't over yet. Victory remains in question. The choice is ours, the time is now - for a moment of truth in Iraq. What are we going to do?" Preceding this interrogatory, Yon relates the recent developments in Northern Iraq generally and Mosul in particular. The question he poses - whether we will withdraw forces from Iraq or remain there in significant numbers to see the mission through - is one that looms like a shadow through the entire book.

Yon argues relentlessly that successes are occurring in Iraq on both the battlefield as well as in the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people and that precipitously withdrawing U.S. forces would have devastating consequences. The situation in Mosul serves ... Read More

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- Mike gets it right
Having worked with Michael firsthand over in Iraq as he was on the ground and reporting from one of the real hotspots in Southern Baghdad, I can tell you that he gets it right in this book. It is an honest portrayal of the war as I knew it in 2007 as a member of one of the surge brigades.

If you want what is the closest account of the ground truth over there, this book delivers. Yon spent more than 2 months total in our OE (operational environment) with various units at different times from March 07- January 08, so he brings honesty, accuracy and a fresh perspective to the table here.

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- Pulitzer Prize! This book is dead on!
Want to read war reporting that is not influenced by politically influenced editors or media? Buy this book! I am a slow reader and I finished it in less than a week! It was impossible to start a chapter and not finish it, only then to be stuck with the difficulty of resisting reading the next chapter. This is book compliments "Shadow Warriors" in a few ways while also telling its own story at the same time.

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- Forget the mainstream media--this is the straight story on Iraq
This is probably the most important book written on the Iraq War. Michael Yon does an outstanding job of telling it like it is--no politics, no right or left, no spin, just the facts. He also reports the facts that the mainstream media usually deems unfit to print. Yon is critical about mistakes that were made, but at the same time shows that the Iraq War is in the process of being won. He credits the surge and a successful "community-policing" style of counterinsurgency strategy. The turnaround in events in Iraq is nothing short of spectacular. This book is easy to read, a page turner and will keep you on the edge of your seat. The stories and pictures Yon uses are especially powerful. Highly recommended. For those that support an immediate withdrawal of troops, this book will change your ... Read More

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- Extremely well written, but a shortsighted view of the Iraq War
This book is an extremely exciting tour from the grunt's point of view. Since this point of view is often overlooked, it is nice to see it done so well.

HOWEVER, If you want to understand how we got into the war or who we are fighting now you will not get any idea from this book. It seems that MOST of our enemies are either Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda sympathizers. There is almost no discussion with any of our enemies, so what little information is provided about our enemies either says that they are fanatics or dismisses them as illevant. If there had been an index, you would see that there is exactly one reference to Moqtada al Sadr... (who was even cut from Yon's otherwise excellent coverage of the execution of Saddam!) and a few, minor references to Nouri Al Maliki. Considering this, ... Read More

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