Battle for Baqubah

By First Sergeant Robert S. Colella, Ret.

Release : 2012-04-12

Genre : Middle Eastern History, Books, History, Military History

Kind : ebook

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The Battle for Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out is a firsthand accountand sometimes a minute-by-minute taleof a raw, in-your-face street fight with Al Qaeda militants over a fifteen-month span in the volatile Diyala Province of Iraq. This story is presented through the eyes of a first sergeant serving with B Company 1-12 Cavalry (Bonecrushers), 1st Cavalry Division, out of Fort Hood, Texas.

The author takes the reader into the midst of the conflict in and around Baqubah Iraq's City of Death a campaign that lasted most of 2007. The author and his fellow Bonecrushers watched as the city went from sectarian fighting amongst the Shiite and Sunnis, to an all-out jihad against the undermanned and dangerously dispersed US forces within Baqubah and the outlying areas.

Battle for Baqubah

By First Sergeant Robert S. Colella, Ret.

Release : 2012-04-12

Genre : Middle Eastern History, Books, History, Military History

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
The Battle for Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out is a firsthand accountand sometimes a minute-by-minute taleof a raw, in-your-face street fight with Al Qaeda militants over a fifteen-month span in the volatile Diyala Province of Iraq. This story is presented through the eyes of a first sergeant serving with B Company 1-12 Cavalry (Bonecrushers), 1st Cavalry Division, out of Fort Hood, Texas.

The author takes the reader into the midst of the conflict in and around Baqubah Iraq's City of Death a campaign that lasted most of 2007. The author and his fellow Bonecrushers watched as the city went from sectarian fighting amongst the Shiite and Sunnis, to an all-out jihad against the undermanned and dangerously dispersed US forces within Baqubah and the outlying areas.

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