Bing West SIGNED Dakota Meyer Into The Fire Afghan War Afghanistan US Marines

Description: Into The Fire: A Firsthand Account of the Most Extraordinary Battle in the Afghan War by Dakota Meyer & Bing WestPRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY JOINT AUTHOR BING WEST (& taking up the entire front free end paper) THUS: "To Ian & Peggy - Friends for the ages! Here is battle as metaphor of the war. Semper Fidelis Bing" (the inscription was made in black felt pen & has gone through to the following [blank] page); Random House 2012 1st ed/1st printing, 243pp., text generally in decent order albeit with small creases to the top corners of many of the pages & an old erased pencil price & date visible to the top right hand corner of the half-title page, very slight browning & creasing to the page extremities at the very top & bottom, very slight staining to those at the side, spine just the slightest bit cocked, very heavy bumping & rubbing to the top right hand corner of the front board, slight bumping & rubbing to the bottom of boards & to the top of the spine - much heavier to the base, the dust jacket has similar creasing to the front top right hand corner along with a small tear, some creasing to the base of the spine & rear bottom right hand corner along with some marks & scratches on front & rear. An acceptable+ copy.In September of 2009, several hundred Taliban ambushed a company of Afghan soldiers and their Marine advisors. The enemy had the company pinned down, with only one exposed road leading in and out of the village. Twenty-one-year-old Marine Corporal Dakota Meyer disobeyed his commanding officer and took command. Without reinforcements or artillery support, he charged forward down the only road five times under withering fire. He killed a dozen Taliban and rescued 18 Afghans and Americans. The company finally rallied and the enemy pulled back. When the story finally became known, Dakota was awarded the Medal of Honor, the United States highest honour. Yet the story of that day remains mired in controversy even now. For a man to charge into fire once requires grit; to do so five times is beyond comprehension. Dakota's performance was the greatest act of courage in the war, because he repeated it and repeated it. In this fast-paced narrative of non-stop action, we hear the story from Dakota's own perspective, and come to know our narrator as a true American hero: a young man raised on a cattle farm in Kentucky with uncompromising morals and a fierce determination to do what's right.Francis J. "Bing" West Jr. (born May 2, 1940) is an American author, Marine combat veteran and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the Reagan Administration. West writes about the military, warfighting, and counterinsurgency. In the Vietnam War, he fought in major operations and conducted over a hundred combat patrols in 1966–1968. For the United States Marine Corps, he wrote the training manual Small Unit Action in Vietnam, describing how to fight in close combat. As an analyst at the RAND Corporation, he wrote half a dozen detailed monographs about fighting against an insurgency. Later, as Assistant Secretary of Defense, he dealt with the insurgencies in El Salvador. From 2003 through 2008, he made 16 extended trips to Iraq, going on patrols and writing three books and numerous articles about the war. From 2007 through 2011, he made numerous trips to embed in Afghanistan.Will ship by Royal Mail 1st Class Signed for, well packaged.(£5.39/mil) Track Page Views With Auctiva's Counter

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