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"Blood flows over my left hand and I lose my grip on his hair. His head snaps back against the floor. In an instant, his fists are pummeling me. I rock from his counterblows. He lands one on my injured jaw and the pain nearly blinds me. He connects with my nose, and blood and snot pour down my throat. I spit blood between my teeth and scream with him. The two of us sound like caged dogs locked in a death match. We are."On the night of November 10, 2004, a U.S. Army infantry squad under Staff Sergeant David Bellavia entered the heart of the city of Fallujah and plunged into one of the most sustained and savage urban battles in the history of American men at arms. With Third Platoon, Alpha Company, part of the Army's Task Force 2/2, Bellavia and his men confronted an enemy who had had weeks to prepare, booby-trapping houses, arranging ambushes, rigging entire city blocks as explosives-laden kill zones, and even stocking up on atropine, a steroid that pumps up fighters in the equivalent of a long-lasting crack high. Entering one house, alone, Bellavia faced the fight of his life against six insurgents, using every weapon at his disposal, including a knife. It is the stuff of legend and the chief reason he is one of the great heroes of the Iraq War.Bringing to searing life the terrifying intimacy of hand-to-hand infantry combat, House to House is far more than just another war story. Populated by an indelibly drawn cast of characters, from a fearless corporal who happens to be a Bush-hating liberal to an inspirational sergeant-major who became the author's own lost father figure, it develops the intensely close relationships that form between soldiers under fire. Their friendships, tested in brutal combat, would never be quite the same. Not all of them would make it out of the city alive. What happened to them in their bloody embrace with America's most implacable enemy is a harrowing, unforgettable story of triumph, tragedy, and the resiliency of the human spirit. A timeless portrait of the U.S. infantryman's courage, House to House is a soldier's memoir that is destined to rank with the finest personal accounts of men at war.
I have had an Amazon account for over 5 years and I have never written a review before (and I've purchased countless items here). After reading this book,there was no way I could not comment:This book was simply amazing, the best anyone could describe in words about the life of the infantry in the middle of the Iraq War. I read this book in 3 days. I was a fellow infantry NCO myself, serving in Ramadi in 2006 and Salman Pak/Baghdad in 2008, so I can definitely relate to this book personally. There's so many unknown truths/stories that combat soldiers have witnessed in the midst of a war on terrorism that go untold (at least before this book). This book goes beyond what the media, journalists, videos, and Hollywood can show you. This book is realism at its finest, shown through the eyes of a US Army Infantry Staff Sergeant in the middle of a war-torn country. The personal descriptions, the personal stories, the humor, the sadness, the "wtf" moments, the responsibility, the regret, the remorse, the anger, the pride and every other trait/emotion felt by the infantry in this war are described flawlessly after Mr. Bellavia was one of the few to actually put all of this into words on paper, told to a mostly unrelated audience who, after reading this, will have a complete better understanding of everything that combat veterans have felt and gone through, that I have yet to see better described anywhere else (be it the news, another book, or any other source). I give Mr. Bellavia much honor and respect for having the courage to come out and repeat his personal stories and events that he (and his squad/platoon/company) has experienced because it takes a lot to do that, not many combat soldiers enjoy being reminded of some of the stories and situations they have witnessed first-hand, myself included.For anyone who wants to completely and truly understand what exactly it was like for an infantryman in the Iraq War (both during and after), read this book. If you want to understand the personal aspects of the war and not just the standard rhetoric that is written in our history books or a news article, read this book. I believe this book should be the standard in all colleges across the Nation for an Iraq memoir taught in class. Read this book, you will not regret it.
