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The Mysteries of Haditha - M. C. Armstrong

The Mysteries of Haditha

A Memoir

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Buch | Softcover
194 Seiten
2022
Potomac Books Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64012-542-1 (ISBN)
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A journalist embedded with Navy SEALs in Iraq recounts his time on the battlefield and the journey there and back.
M. C. Armstrong secured his embed as a journalist with the Navy SEALs in 2008. Shortly before he left for Iraq his father asked him to tell the story no one else seemed to be telling, the story of the people sometimes constructed as our friends and other times our enemies: the Iraqis. “But what about them?” he asked. “Who’s their good guy? Who’s their George Washington? That’s the story you want to find. Talk to them.”

Armstrong’s searing memories about his relationship with his father, his fiancé, and his SEAL team companion take the reader on a nosedive ride from a historically Black college in the American South straight into Baghdad, the burn pits, and the desert beyond the mysterious Haditha dam. Culminating in the disclosure of a devastating secret, The Mysteries of Haditha explores the lengths Armstrong was willing to go to prove himself and to witness a truth he couldn’t have prepared himself to receive. At once daring, dark, and hilarious, this memoir of Armstrong’s journey pulls no punches and lifts the veil on the lies we tell each other and the ones we tell ourselves. The Mysteries of Haditha is a coming-of-age story and an unprecedented glimpse into the heart of the war on terror.

 

M. C. Armstrong was embedded with Joint Special Operation Forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He published extensively on the Iraq War through the Winchester (VA) Star and is the winner of a Pushcart Prize. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Esquire, Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, Mayday, Wrath Bearing Tree, Monkeybicycle, Epiphany, Literary Review, and other journals and anthologies. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.  

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. March 2008: Kuwait and Iraq
2. September 2007: America
3. March 2008: Iraq
4. November 2007: America
5. March 2008: Iraq
6. November 2007: America
7. March 2008: Iraq
8. February 2008: America and Kuwait
9. March 2008: Iraq and Kuwait
10. March 2008–September 2019: America

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 10 photographs
Verlagsort Dulles
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
ISBN-10 1-64012-542-6 / 1640125426
ISBN-13 978-1-64012-542-1 / 9781640125421
Zustand Neuware
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