Reckoning in Ramadi

In Unremitting: The Marine "Bastard" Battalion and the Savage Battle that Marked the True Start of America's War in Iraq, author Gregg Zoroya takes readers on an intense, often violent journey with a Marine battalion that fought in some of the toughest fighting in American history—the Battle of Ramadi, Iraq, in the summer of 2004. Incredibly detailed, Unremitting provides a day-to-day—and in many cases a minute-by-minute—narrative about the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines (2/4) and the punishing warfare it faced over 184 days in the provincial capital of Ramadi. Over that deployment, the 1,000-man battalion suffered 238 Marines and sailors wounded and 34 dead, a whopping casualty rate of roughly 30 percent, the highest of any battalion in Iraq or Afghanistan.

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