City of Death : Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul.

By:

Mattos, Ephraim

Contributor(s):

McEwen, Scott [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Hachette Nashville, 2018.Description: 291 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmISBN:

1546075933
9781546075936

Subject(s):

Political science

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: City of Death : Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul.DDC classification:

LOC classification:

HV555.I72

Online resources:

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; Dedication; Prologue; Chapter 1: I Respectfully Disagree; Chapter 2: Mental Toughness; Chapter 3: Hate; Chapter 4: Free Burma Rangers; Chapter 5: Into Iraq; Chapter 6: April Fool's Day; Chapter 7: The Assault on Gharbaluh; Chapter 8: The Calm Before the Storm; Chapter 9: The First Nazaheen; Chapter 10: Pinned Down; Chapter 11: The Girl in the Yellow Dress; Chapter 12: To the Death; Chapter 13: Caught in the Crossfire; Chapter 14: Rain, Bullets, Tears, and a Tank; Chapter 15: From the Ashes; Chapter 16: The Breaking Point.

Chapter 17: Screams in the DesertChapter 18: Welcome Back to Mosul; Chapter 19: Family Life; Chapter 20: Into the Darkness; Chapter 21: The Rescue (Part One); Chapter 22: The Rescue (Part Two); Chapter 23: Peshmerga; Epilogue; Aftermath; Photos; About the Authors; Newsletters.

Summary: This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS - the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII. After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age twenty-four, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS. Until being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Free Burma Rangers, who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS-infested streets-all to retrieve wounded civilians. In City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul, Mattos recounts in vivid detail what he saw and felt while he and the other Free Burma Rangers evacuated the wounded, conducted rescue missions, and at times fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Iraqi Army against ISIS. Filled with raw and emotional descriptions of what it's like to come face-to-face with death, this is the harrowing and uplifting true story of a small group of men who risked everything to save the lives of the Iraqi people and who followed the credence, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." As the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling American Sniper, Scott McEwen has teamed up with Mattos to help share an unforgettable tale of an American warrior turned humanitarian forced to fight his way into and out of a Hell on Earth created by ISIS.

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Non-Fiction	Waimate Located at Event Centre	Non Fiction	327 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not For Loan		a00814923

This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS - the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII. After leaving the US Navy SEAL teams in spring of 2017, Ephraim Mattos, age twenty-four, flew to Iraq to join a small group of volunteer humanitarians known as the Free Burma Rangers, who were working on the frontlines of the war on ISIS. Until being shot by ISIS on a suicidal rescue mission, Mattos witnessed unexplainable acts of courage and sacrifice by the Free Burma Rangers, who, while under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, assaulted across ISIS minefields, used themselves as human shields, and sprinted down ISIS-infested streets-all to retrieve wounded civilians. In City of Death: Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul, Mattos recounts in vivid detail what he saw and felt while he and the other Free Burma Rangers evacuated the wounded, conducted rescue missions, and at times fought shoulder-to-shoulder with the Iraqi Army against ISIS. Filled with raw and emotional descriptions of what it's like to come face-to-face with death, this is the harrowing and uplifting true story of a small group of men who risked everything to save the lives of the Iraqi people and who followed the credence, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." As the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling American Sniper, Scott McEwen has teamed up with Mattos to help share an unforgettable tale of an American warrior turned humanitarian forced to fight his way into and out of a Hell on Earth created by ISIS.

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