Mirage in the Sand Reflections of a Grunt in the Early Days of GWOT
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.03.2026
Verlag
JC Harstad PublishingSeitenzahl
526
Maße (L/B/H)
25.4/17.8/2.8 cm
Gewicht
978 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798995294702
War. People love the clean version of war. Simple motivations, clear victories, and neat endings, but that version is a mirage. Born and raised in Iowa, Jeff Harstad enlisted in the U.S. Army on September 12, 2001, one day after the attacks that changed everything. Fort Benning's demanding Infantry School taught him the basics. Then the real world taught him the rest. Serving with the 3rd Infantry Division during the early years of the Global War on Terror, he learned how quickly "normal" can become chaos, and how survival often comes down to discipline, luck, and the person standing next to you. In Mirage in the Sand, Harstad brings you into the grind: training that breaks you down, deployments that test everything you believe, and bonds forged under intense pressure. Firefights, IEDs, mortar attacks, and air assault missions unfold alongside stories of heroism, dysfunction, and gallows humor, because that's what military life looks like when you're trying to bring your soldiers home. The story widens beyond Iraq into the behind-the-scenes world most never see: high-risk field problems, foreign assignments, and encounters with cultures far from the comforts of Midwestern life. Candid, darkly funny, and deeply researched, with historical letters, dozens of photographs, and extensive citations, this isn't a sanitized narrative, and it isn't pushing an agenda. If you want the truth, as close as ink can get, welcome to the sand.
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