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Shadow of the Sword : A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption by Jeremiah Workman with John R. Bruning is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Awarded the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire, Staff Sergeant Jeremiah Workman is one of the Marine Corps’ best-known contemporary combat veterans. In this searing and inspiring memoir, he tells an unforgettable story of his service overseas–and of the emotional wars that continue to rage long after our fighting men come home. Raised in a tiny blue-collar town in Ohio, Jeremiah Workman was a handsome and athletic high achiever. Having excelled on the sporting field, he believed that the Marine Corps would be the perfect way to harness his physical and professional drives. In the Iraqi city of Fallujah in December 2004, Workman faced the challenge that would change his life. He and his platoon were searching for hidden caches of weapons and mopping up die-hard insurgent cells when they came upon a building in which a team of fanatical insurgents had their fellow Marines trapped. Leading repeated assaults on that building, Workman killed more than twenty of the enemy in a ferocious firefight that left three of his own men dead. But Workman’s most difficult fight lay ahead of him–in the battlefield of his mind. Burying his guilt about the deaths of his men, he returned stateside, wh
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- Author
- Jeremiah Workman with John R. Bruning
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780345512123
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (99 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14