Research Catalog

Title

Hearts and mines : with the Marines in Al Anbar : a story of psychological warfare in Iraq / Russell Snyder.

Author

Snyder, Russell (Russell A.)

Publication

Philadelphia : Casemate, 2012.

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Description

215 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map; 24 cm.

Summary

"These are my memories of life as a member of one of the U.S. Army's three-man tactical psychological operations teams (TPTs). While attached in support of the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, and 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines, operating along the Euphrates river valley in western Iraq's Anbar desert during the spring and summer of 2005, I witnessed what was at the time some of the most vicious counterinsurgency fighting of Operation Iraqi Freedom since Fallujah. I do not claim to be a historian, or even to have been privy to the big picture of the war reserved for the generals and their staff. Nothing I did was heroic or changed the course of history or any battle. Mine was the perspective of a low-ranking sergeant, isolated from the media's reports and influenced by the stresses of fatigue, fear, and moral uncertainty. ... But as for the memories of one soldier who was there, what follows is what really happened"--Preface, p. 12.

Subject

• Anbār (Iraq : Province)
• Anbār (Iraq : Province)
• Iraq
• Iraq War, 2003-2011
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Biography
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Campaigns > Anbār (Province)
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Campaigns
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, American
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Psychological aspects
• Psychological Warfare
• Psychological warfare > Iraq
• Snyder, Russell
• United States. Battalion, 2nd
• United States. Battalion, 3rd
• United States. Marine Corps > History > Iraq War, 2003-2011
• United States. Marine Corps > History
• United States. Psychological Operations Battalion, 9th

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Into the oven -- A soft breath of terror -- The road to Al Qa'im -- PowerPoint and Purple Hearts -- Metal rain -- A price on our heads -- Tortured steel, bitter tears -- A warning from Karabilah -- Cat walks by himself -- Close calls and chicken wings -- Paper bullets -- Tiny, bloody bodies -- A high price for vengeance -- Unicorn bandits -- Quick strike -- "Good morning, Husaybah" -- Out of the oven.

ISBN

• 9781612001050
• 161200105X
• 9781612001173 (digital ed.) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2011279449

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library