Echo in Ramadi
By Scott A. Huesing & James Livingston
- Release Date: 2018-02-20
- Genre: History
Description
Winner of the 2019 Gold Medal Award, Best Military History Memoir, Military Writers Society of America
Ranked in the "Top 10 Military Books of 2018" by Military Times.
"In war, destruction is everywhere. It eats everything around you. Sometimes it eats at you." —Major Scott Huesing, Echo Company Commander
From the winter of 2006 through the spring of 2007, two-hundred-fifty Marines from Echo Company, Second Battalion, Fourth Marine Regiment fought daily in the dangerous, dense city streets of Ramadi, Iraq during the Multi-National Forces Surge ordered by President George W. Bush. The Marines' mission: to kill or capture anti-Iraqi forces. Their experience: like being in Hell. Now Major Scott A. Huesing, the commander who led Echo Company through Ramadi, takes readers back to the streets of Ramadi in a visceral, gripping portrayal of modern urban combat. Bound together by brotherhood, honor, and the horror they faced, Echo's Marines battled day-to-day on the frontline of a totally different kind of war, without rules, built on chaos. In Echo in Ramadi, Huesing brings these resilient, resolute young men to life and shows how the savagery of urban combat left indelible scars on their bodies, psyches, and souls. Like war classics We Were Soldiers, The Yellow Birds, and Generation Kill, Echo in Ramadi is an unforgettable capsule of one company's experience of war that will leave readers stunned.
Reviews
A great true story about the Marine Corps
5By NotPuzzledThis book really brings the Marine Corps brotherhood off the page and into your heart. The author’s first hand experience in leading combat Marines, and 24 years of active-duty, give him great insight into Marines both as individual people and as a team of warriors. Trigger warning: no matter how much of a tough guy you think you are, you will cry reading the author’s description of his interactions with the Gold Star families of Marines who made the ultimate sacrifice under his command.Fantastic book!!
5By Marine_50613I was on that deployment with Major Scott Huesing. I was in Wpns Company. A few of the Marines lost on that deployment where good friends of mine threw boot camp or SOI.. and many others I still talk to today. This book is excellently written and told the way my fellow Marines talk to me about it. If you want to read a book of real life situation and accounts from “our generations war” or if your a fellow vet wanting to relate your situations with ours read this book. I highly recommend it. Semper Fi Major Huesing you Magnificent Bastard!!
