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Ronin
Mike Tucker
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Description for Ronin
Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 27 b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 combat tour in 2005 06 to tell this exclusive from-the-frontlines story. Ronin captures 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 ... Read more
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 combat tour in 2005 06 to tell this exclusive from-the-frontlines story. Ronin captures 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stackpole Books United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Mechanicsburg, United States
ISBN
9780811703185
SKU
V9780811703185
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Ref
99-15
About Mike Tucker
Mike Tucker is a Marine infantry veteran who has reported on guerrilla warfare and terrorism from hot spots around the globe, including Thailand, Burma, Spain, and Iraq. He holds bachelor s and master s degrees from James Madison University, where he was a visiting scholar on counterterrorism in 2006. Tucker is also the author of The Long Patrol, Hell Is ... Read more
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