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Never underestimate the American--or British--soldier. That's the moral of former Green Beret Michael Yon's brilliant battle-by-battle, block-by-block tale of how a new `greatest generation' of soldiers is turning defeat and disaster into victory and hope in Iraq.

These soldiers are the reason General David Petraeus's brilliant strategy of moving our soldiers off isolated bases and out among the Iraqi people is working. Working to find and kill terrorists, reclaim neighborhoods, and help lead Iraq to democracy.

Yon is no cheerleader. According to the New York Times, he has logged more time in combat situations in Iraq than any other reporter; much of it with British soldiers in Basra and elsewhere in the South. When failed American leadership was driving Iraq into chaos and civil war, nobody told the story earlier or better than Michael Yon. The American top brass was so mad that twice the U.S. military denied him access to Iraq.

So Yon has supreme credibility when he says that we are finally winning, not primarily with our overwhelming technology, not with shock and awe destruction, but with the even more powerful force of American values--with the courage and leadership, strength and compassion of our soldiers.

Iraqis respect strength, says Yon. They our soldiers are "great-hearted warriors" who vanquish the Al Qaeda terror gangs that "raped too many women and boys, cut off too many heads, brought drugs into too many neighborhoods."

But Iraqis also discovered that these great warriors are even happier helping rebuild a clinic or a school or a neighborhood. They learned that our soldiers are not only the most dangerous men in the world, but the best men too. That's what turned defeat into victory.

Here is the true, untold story of the American soldier and the courage and values that are bringing victory for America--and Iraq.

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Praise for Michael Yon's battlefield reporting:

"He's fearless . . . provides a candid, soldier's-eye view . . . from the very unique perspective of being there with them for weeks and months at a time . . . delv[ing] deep into the human component."

--General DAVID H. PETRAEUS, commanding general, Multi-National Force, Iraq

"Michael Yon's voice is the voice of the soldier, often unfazed by what he sees, mission-focused and battle-hardened. These guys don't scare easily and they never let up, and Michael tells the story from their point of view."

--BRIAN WILLIAMS, Anchor, NBC Nightly News

"Cuts through the fog of war.... vivid ... shocking and mesmerizing"

--THE BOSTON HERALD

"Yon covers soldiers...the old-fashioned way: He goes down the back alleys and the bad roads"

--JOE GALLOWAY, author of We Were Soldiers Once...And Young

"rack[ed] up more time embedded with combat units than any other journalist"

--THE NEW YORK TIMES

"...I haven't seen anything quite like the coverage in Michael Yon's dispatches from Mosul...a compelling narrative"

--MICHAEL BARONE, US NEWS AND WORLD REPORT

"His readers have learned what most Americans would not know from NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS and NPR"

--former NEW YORK TIMES foreign correspondent CLIFFORD MAY

"Michael Yon brings it. . . . If you want to know what is going on in this war, read him."

--THOMAS E. RICKS, author of Fiasco, and military correspondent, THE WASHINGTON POST

" infuriated his military handlers, even as [he] gave American soldiers a robust new voice."

--THE LOS ANGELES TIMES

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