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Alpha : Eddie Gallagher and the war for the soul of the Navy Seals / David Philipps.
Van Pelt Library KF225.G35 P45 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Philipps, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Naval Special Warfare Command. SEAL Team Seven.
- United States. Navy. SEALs.
- Trials (Murder)--United States.
- Trials (Murder).
- War crime trials.
- United States.
- War crime trials--United States.
- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States.
- Courts-martial and courts of inquiry.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Campaigns--Iraq--Mosul.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Military discipline--United States.
- Military discipline.
- Armed Forces--Military life.
- Military campaigns.
- Gallagher, Eddie, 1979---Trials, litigation, etc.
- Gallagher, Eddie.
- United States. Navy. SEALs--Military life.
- United States. Naval Special Warfare Command. SEAL Team Seven. Alpha Platoon--Biography.
- IS (Organization).
- Iraq.
- Iraq--Mosul.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- True crime stories.
- Trials, litigation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 443 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Philipps uncovers the shocking rise and fall of Eddie Gallagher, the decorated Navy SEAL accused of war crimes during his deployment to Mosul, the fellow SEALs who turned him in, and the court martial that captivated the nation"-- Provided by publisher.
- By official accounts, the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon returned as heroes after their 2017 deployment to Mosul. But within the platoon a different war raged. Even as Alpha's chief, Eddie Gallagher, was being honored by the Navy for his leadership, several of his men were preparing to report him for war crimes, alleging that he'd stabbed a prisoner in cold blood and taken lethal sniper shots at unarmed civilians. Some in his platoon saw Gallagher as a man who appeared to be coming unhinged after multiple deployments in America's forever wars. Philipps reveals the story of a group of special operators caught in a moral crucible: should they uphold their oath and turn in their chief, or honor the SEALs' unwritten code of silence? -- adapted from jacket
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Alpha Platoon
- ch. 2 Mosul
- ch. 3 American Sniper
- ch. 4 Pirates
- ch. 5 The Captive
- ch. 6 Man Down
- ch. 7 The Towers
- ch. 8 Bad Targets
- ch. 9 Loyalty
- ch. 10 Special Agents
- ch. 11 Immunity
- ch. 12 Andrea's War
- ch. 13 A Jury Of Peers
- ch. 14 The Woodshed
- ch. 15 The Fighter
- ch. 16 The Verdict
- ch. 17 Frag Radius
- ch. 18 Frogmen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-421) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Penman Wood Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Philipps, David, Alpha
- ISBN:
- 9780593238387
- 0593238389
- OCLC:
- 1245249247
- Publisher Number:
- 99988764227
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