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	• No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah Bing West Bantam, 2005 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 119 reviews view larger image
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Excellent Read!

Very informative and was unable to put down during the urban combat scenes in the book.
As a former Marine but one with a non infantry MOS and never involved in combat, It gave me a great perpective and understanding of the grunt and the dangerous duress and hardships that they had to go through in Iraq.
Because of this read, I fully understand the reasoning of the infamous Marine shown on world wide news shooting a wounded and seemingly harmless insurgent in the head. During that time I was unsure whether what the Marine did was right or wrong. After reading this book, it has convinced me it was the only thing to do.
You will have to read the book to understand.

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Today's Warriors

I have read Bing's previous books and thought them excellent. This book, "No True Glory", is OUTSTANDING! In it he captures the emotions and feelings of the Grunts on the ground and takes us behind the scenes into the political intrigue that makes winning a war so difficult. One particular chapter, 27, is titled, "The House From Hell". It is by far the most intense read imaginable. You live and die with these fine young men and feel the anguish as they die. Anyone who does not feel emotionally drained, and mad, after reading this should pack it in. Semper Fi.

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This is True Glory

My best friend served with the Marines in Vietnam. I served as a Squad Ldr. in Vietnam 68-69. My friend's two sons served in Iraq with the oldest just arriving home from his 3rd tour. He served in Fallujah two of those tours. I wanted to get a feel for the battles he was in and understand from a Grunts view what he went through. I saw Bing on C-Span and and the book appeared to be what I was looking for. I was amazed at the detail in reconstructing the battle scenes. His writing is explicit and gritty and the way Infantry fights and dies. His style reminds me of Stephen Ambrose and getting the facts right down to the Squad level. He tells the story from the Squad level up the chain of command and quotes from that level to the top. I have a complete view of what my friend's sons have been through and it was tough. Thank you for this great account and god bless all the Warriors out there. "Everyone should hate war but love the Warrior" General Hal Moore " GarryOwen" Ron St Jean

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The Marines. The best warriors we have.

Great book. Bing West certainly gave me a full and complete understanding of the struggle to take Fallujah and along the way I begin to see that this new generation of Marines were once again fulfilling a long tradition of exceptional warriors in battle. Bing West's writing is upfront, objective, clear, with the focus on the individual Marines. You will get to know Lance Corporals and Generals by name. But most of all you will come away with a wonderful feeling from the book, that there are these very special Marines that will come to fight for us with their lives when we ask. They are the best of the best.

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This book says it all about Fallujah

If you are an avid non-fiction war reader like me and you've heard a lot about Fallujah's two main battles in April and November of 2004 on the news, and you've read articles on the net and on Time magazine to try to put it all together on your head, this book is for you.

This book gives you a full account of what really happened there, and it gives you a sense of how much real heroism is missing if we listen only to what the media chooses to report.

As the writer puts it: "There will be not true glory for our soldiers in Iraq until they are recognized not as victims but as aggressive warriors"

The way these young heroes fought and some died on the two battles for Fallujah and other battles fought in Iraq should be told in documentaries, movies, media news and more books like this one, with the same admiration and respect given today to soldiers that fought in modern battles like the Americans that fought in Iwo Jima, Mogadishu, Hue City, the Russians on Leningrad, the allies in Korea and Normandy etc. Unfortunately the media and the anti war movement chooses to label every soldier that dies in Iraq as a victim even if they succomb as heroes in the middle of a battle.

The book doesn't have a dull moment and every fire fight is so detailed that you feel like you are one of those soldiers in the middle of it. This book is up there with other good books about the Iraq war like "Generation Kill" and "Thunder Run".

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