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Packed for the Wrong Trip - A New Look inside Abu Ghraib and the Citizen-Soldiers Who Redeemed America?s Honor (Hardcover)
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Packed for the Wrong Trip - A New Look inside Abu Ghraib and the Citizen-Soldiers Who Redeemed America?s Honor (Hardcover)
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How an Unprepared, Undertrained Group of Maine National Guard
Troops Went to Abu Ghraib to Fix the Irreparable The prison at Abu
Ghraib was still a relatively unknown part of America's War on
Terror when with no special training and their gear lost somewhere
between the United States and Baghdad the 152nd Field Artillery
Battalion of the Maine National Guard was sent there to serve as
guards in February 2004. Just before their arrival, the now
infamous photos of the abuses suffered by the prisoners hit the
world stage. Abu Ghraib became the focal point not only for global
condemnation but for the insurgents' outrage. Over the next year,
the 152nd would come under attack by snipers, suicide bombers,
vehicle-borne IEDs, and constant rocket and mortar fire. Yet at the
same time, the Mainers would form close bonds with some of the
prisoners, among them an Iraqi boy struck by a mortar in one of two
mass casualty events, and Kamal, a community leader who acts as an
envoy between the detainees and the soldiers and yet is
assassinated after his release for helping the Americans. The men
of the 152nd were an eclectic group of citizen-soldiers caught in
one of the darkest corners of the war in Iraq. Packed for the Wrong
Trip tells the true story of how they relied on each other and
their own ingenuity to survive and to transform one of the most
inhumane detainee centers into a functioning, humane prison or as
close to one as you could get when tucked between Baghdad and the
insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as
our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for
readers interested in history-books about World War II, the Third
Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination,
conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution,
gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West,
and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York
Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to
books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors
whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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