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Language English LC Class DS79.76 .W67 2009 ISBN 9780345512123 Country United States of America | 4.2/5 Publication date 2009 Pages 253 pages Originally published 2009 OCLC 290468892 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption (ISBN 978-0-345-51212-3) is an autobiographical account of post-traumatic stress disorder by Jeremiah Workman, who served with the US Marine Corps in the Iraq War.
Workman received the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire after killing twenty insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, on December 23, 2004, but later suffered flashbacks reliving the death of three fellow marines in the battle. He also describes having been ordered to "push at least two recruits into suicide attempts" while a drill instructor, an episode that a WSJ reviewer calls "the only part of the book that sounds implausible, given the standards that define the Marines".
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