Martha Raddatz is the Chief Global Affairs Correspondent for ABC News and the coanchor of This Week with George Stephanopoulos. She has covered national security, foreign policy, and politics for decades—reporting from the Pentagon, the State Department, the White House, and conflict zones around the world.
Praise for The Long Road Home
“The word ‘sacrifice’ is used a lot. In The Long Road Home, Martha
Raddatz shows what the word really means...Read it.”—Thomas E.
Ricks, author of Fiasco
“Grit and high drama...searingly vivid evidence of the toll U.S.
soldiers pay.”—The New York Times
“A picture of American valor and unflagging commitment.”—Rocky
Mountain News
“A poignant piece of work that will grab and hold you.”—St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
“[This] nervy, brilliantly reported book tells the human stories
that ricocheted out from one long, brutal firefight.”—Minneapolis
Star Tribune
“A truly great book about men, women, and raw courage.”—Diane
Sawyer, ABC News
“Raddatz’s powerful book introduces us to people we root for, and
care about, and won’t soon forget.”—Nathaniel Fick, author of One
Bullet Away
“An unforgettable and entirely new portrait of the American family
at war.”—Evan Wright, author of Generation Kill
“[A] fast-paced narrative of how some of these soldiers struggled
to survive when their routine patrol of a Baghdad slum went
terribly wrong, forever changing the lives of those involved and
signaling a new phase in the violent resistance to U.S. occupation
of Iraq.”—Los Angeles Times
“Might well be the Black Hawk Down of the Iraq war.”—The Washington
Post
“A thoroughly gripping read....There is something very special
about membership in the ‘brotherhood of the close fight,’ and The
Long Road Home establishes clearly that those who fought on ‘black
Sunday’ earned a cherished place in that elite fraternity.”—General
David Petraeus, Commander, Multinational Force Iraq
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