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About Dakota Meyer
See more books from this AuthorCombat memoirs don’t get any more personal, and Meyer deserves honors for his honesty here just as much as for his experiences in the field.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac... | See more reviews from KirkusWritten with his imperfect humanity bravely on display, Mr. Meyer's narrative shows us that cartoon notions like "invincibility" have no place in the equation.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac... | See more reviews from WSJ onlineI sincerely hope this book project is a catharsis for Sgt. Meyer. The fact is, his higher headquarters planned a poor mission and did not properly support it when trouble occurred.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac... | See more reviews from Washington Times...the efforts to help other soldiers and in Dakota Meyer's case, mostly allied Afghan Soldiers is inspiring and a model of selflessness. That is something, despite war, that is always worth remembering.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac... | See more reviews from NY Journal of BooksReaders in search of tactical detail will find much to satisfy them in this book.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac...Readers in search of tactical detail will find much to satisfy them in this book. Those interested in larger strategic, political or existential truths will be frustrated.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac...The story of America’s most recent living Medal of Honor winner highlights two contrasting traits found in martial organizations: heroism and C-Y-A poltroonery.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac......Meyer offers the reader one grunt’s view, the tactical thinking of a highly trained marksman and deer hunter, his lust for battle and the guilt that nearly kills him after he finally finds his friends, dead in a ditch.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac...“Into the Fire” is more than an incredible story of Dakota Meyer’s heroic actions; it reveals the complexities of the war in Afghanistan from the infantryman’s perspective...
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac......Dakota Meyer fearlessly took on overwhelming odds by commandeering a mounted gun. But by undertaking not one but five suicide missions in one day, this stubbornly ferocious Marine is in a league of his own.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac...As it is, the reader is forced to flip back and forth between pages and maps and earlier descriptions. It makes for a rocky read.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac...This book is a must read and will be very hard to put down. It is an intense story that puts the reader right into the battle.
Read Full Review of Into the Fire: A Firsthand Ac...Into the Fire tells the full story of the chaotic battle of Ganjigal for the first time, in a compelling, human way that reveals it as a microcosm of our recent wars.
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