Ronin: A Marine Scout-Sniper Platoon in Iraq

by Mike Tucker

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First-ever oral history of an entire Marine scout-sniper platoon Evidence of how Al Qaeda penetrated the Fallujah police department and never-before-seen photos of suicide bombings in Fallujah Boots-on-the-ground perspective on American policy in action in Iraq In this raw and provocative new book, readers wear desert camouflage, climb to rooftops, and get behind the rifle with a platoon of elite Marine snipers and scouts in Iraq. Author Mike Tucker embedded with the unit for its entire show more combat tour in 2005-06 to tell this exclusive from-the-frontlines story. Ronincaptures true-grit Marines at war as they reconnoiter Iraqi villages, track terrorist targets, grapple with unrealistic rules of engagement, and get the kill. It also contains the only firsthand accounts of such previously unreported actions as an Al Qaeda attack on a police station and the "winter of the sniper" when terrorist gunmen plagued Coalition forces in Fallujah. show less

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History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS
956.7044History & geographyHistory of AsiaMiddle East Asia: Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, JordanIraq1920-1979-
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DS79.76 .T83History of Europe, Asia, Africa and OceaniaAsiaHistory of Asia
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