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Shadow of the sword : a Marine's journey of war, heroism, and redemption
- Title
- Shadow of the sword : a Marine's journey of war, heroism, and redemption / Jeremiah Workman with John R. Bruning.
- Author
- Workman, Jeremiah, 1983-
- Publication
- New York : Ballantine Books, ©2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DS79.76 .W67 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Bruning, John R.
- Description
- xi, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Awarded the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire, Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman is one of the Marine Corps' best-known contemporary combat veterans. In this memoir, he tells a story of his service overseas and of the emotional wars that continue to rage long after our fighting men come home. In the Iraqi city of Fallujah in December 2004, Workman faced the challenge that would change his life. He and his platoon were searching for hidden caches of weapons and mopping up die-hard insurgent cells when they came upon a building in which a team of fanatical insurgents had their fellow Marines trapped. Leading repeated assaults on that building, Workman killed more than twenty of the enemy in a ferocious firefight that left three of his own men dead. In Shadow of the Sword, a memoir that captures both wartime courage and its lifelong consequences, Workman candidly reveals the ordeal of post-traumatic stress disorder: the therapy and drug treatments that deadened his mind even as they eased his pain, the overwhelming stress that pushed his marriage to the brink, and the confrontations with anger and self-blame that he had internalized for years.--From publisher description.
- Subject
- Workman, Jeremiah, 1983-
- United States. Marine Corps > Biography
- United States. Marine Corps
- 2003-2011
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, American
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Biography
- Marines > United States > Biography
- Marines
- Iraq War, 2003
- Iraq War, 2003- > Biography
- Marines > Biography
- Iraq
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- Personal Narrative
- Personal narratives.
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives – American.
- Récits personnels.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780345512123
- 034551212X
- LCCN
- 2009028564
- OCLC
- ocn290468892
- 290468892
- SCSB-14404255
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library