Joker One: A Marine Platoon's Story of Courage, Leadership, and Brotherhood (Paperback)

from ggarfield

Candid, Minute to Minute, On the Ground Account Donavan Campbell gives us a candid view of what he and his Marine platoon, Joker One, experienced as they trained at Camp Pendleton California for their deployment in Ramadi, Iraq. The "hit and run" tactics of the enemy, how terrorists melt back int...

from MoxieHart

You know how they say to never judge a book by its cover? They should update it to include never judge a book by the paragraph on its back cover. I started reading this book apprehensively because its description made it sound like it was written by a Christian jihadist out to kill hajis. Thankfu...

from jshrop

Joker One by Donovan Campbell is a raw account of the war in Iraq told by a USMC platoon leader who was deployed with his men in 2004. It is a heartfelt account of day to day life on the ground in a war-ravaged country, a story about the commitment that these men made to each other, and proved ev...

from MaryKay1822

"Donovan Campbell was a platoon commander in the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment in Anbar in 2004. In Joker One, he tells the story of a hard fight from the ground level better than most of the military writers or news people ever could. This is how it was in Ramadi in 2004,way before the Surg...

from scofer

Joker One is the personal account of a marine lieutenant and his experiences during a deployment in Ramadi, Iraq. Extremely well done. While the story is told from Campbell's perspective, it's less about him than the men in his troop and the intense bond they share. This genre is generally not my...