Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood

Ten minutes ago, though, the world was very simple, for it consisted solely of something that seemed like one gigantic explosion. Actually, it was three separate large explosions within half seconds of one another, but it’s fairly difficult to make the distinction when you’re lying on your back with your ears ringing. However, it’s fairly easy to think rapidly and incoherently, which was exactly what I was doing as I lay on my back, wondering whether my hearing would return this time, and, incidentally, what in the hell had just happened to me and my men.

Excerpt from the book Joker One a Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood, written by Donvan Campbell, a Marine whose  battalion was assigned to one of Iraq's worst hot spots: the city of Ramadi, where they fought from street to street and house to house for seven brutal months. A brilliant narrative about commanding marine infantry in Iraq.

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