Red Zone Baghdad: My War in Iraq [Signed]

Fielding, Marcus

ISBN 10: 1921941170 / ISBN 13: 9781921941177

Published by Big Sky Publishing, Newport, 2011

About this Item

SIGNED & briefly INSCRIBED by the author in black ink on half-title page: "To Dave, with thanks, Marcus Fielding". Foreword by Major General Jim Molan. Illustrated with colour photographs. Includes appendix. Very slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight copy. 246pp. Scarce signed copy.

Seller Inventory # 009286

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Zone Baghdad: My War in Iraq [Signed]
• Publisher: Big Sky Publishing, Newport
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1921941170
• ISBN 13: 9781921941177
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

When Colonel Marcus Fielding returned home from his tour of duty in Baghdad, a taxi driver asked him what it was like being a soldier there. Marcus, an experienced veteran, found himself speechless – how could he properly explain to a civilian the nature of his work and his life during his tour? He mouthed a few platitudes butfelt frustrated: he had not done justice to his experience or to his fellow soldiers still in Iraq.This book is the result of that frustration, and it provides fascinating insights into the conditions on the ground in a theatre of war that more than 20,000 Australian men and women have served. Marcus was deployed as an ‘embed’ in the final days of the Australian presence. By this time, the violence had subsided somewhat from the carnage of the first few years of Operation Iraqi Freedom, but with several crucial elections being held, sectarian terror nonetheless reared its frighteninghead on many occasions.From his ‘office’ in Saddam’s former al-Faw Palace,Marcus finds himself more involved with nation-building than killing ‘bad guys’. His tour is not so much about combat, guts and glory as it is about dealing with the vital issues associated with the elections and the Coalition troop draw-down. But he also paints a vivid picture of everyday life set against a backdrop of violence: the heat and dust,attending meetings in the Red Zone, the camaraderie of the cigar club, visits to orphanages and the morale-raising visits of US ‘personalities’.Red Zone Baghdad presents a rare glimpse into the reality of an officer’s war in our time.