About the Author
Nathaniel Fick read Classics at Dartmouth, graduated in 1999 and joined the U.S. Marine Corps. He passed officer training and joined a battalion just before 9/11. Fick saw action in Afghanistan, then joined the elite Recon Battalion in time for the invasion of Iraq. Among the first soldiers to enter Baghdad, he left the Marines in 2003 after being promoted to captain. He is now in a joint degree programme at Harvard Business School of Government.
Copyright
Orion
A Weidenfeld & Nicolson ebook
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First published in the USA in 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company
First published in Great Britain in 2006 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson
This paperback edition published in 2007 by Phoenix, an imprint of Orion Books Ltd, Orion House, 5 Upper St Martinís Lane, London WC2H 9EA
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