Blood Stripes

by David Danelo

Overview

• The dynamic story of the life and times of five Marine corporals and sergeants, men at the front lines of the war in Iraq
• First extended account of the Marine experience fighting the Iraq insurgency from the grunt's perspective
• Author interviewed charismatic and controversial Marine Gen. James N. "Mad Dog" Mattis, a legendary Marine commander revered by the grunts and gives new details about the battle for Fallujah

A sometimes harrowing, often humorous, and occasionally tragic look at the Marine Corps from the inside out in its struggle with the insurgency in Iraq. Drawing from personal experience in the confusing, deadly conflict currently being fought in the streets and back alleys of Iraqi towns and villages, Danelo focuses on the young Marine leaders--corporals and sergeants--whose job it is to take even younger Marines into battle, close with and destroy an elusive enemy, and bring their boys back home again. Sadly, there are losses, but true to the Marine Corps spirit, they soldier on, earning their blood stripes the only way they know how--the hard way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780811742054
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	07/17/2007
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

David J. Danelo is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a Marine Corps veterans of the Iraq War. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, Proceedings, the Marine Corps Gazette, and Military.com. He is currently the editor of U.S. Cavalry On-Point, an online counterterrorism journal. He lives near Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Editorial Reviews

An interesting ride. Rudyard Kipling meets Rolling Stone.

Proceedings

Blood Stripes is a superb cover-to-cover read, allowing any combat bookworm to mix and mingle with the complex problems of confronting hardened and deadly insurgency fighters.

Leatherneck

Its honesty is refreshing

Stars and Stripes

Danelo's narrative is both entertaining and a tribute to the Marines who do the heavy lifting in Iraq.

Marine Corps Gazette

An intense account of war, raw as a wound, that reads as swiftly as a novel.

New York Post