Battle for Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out

First Sergeant Robert S. Colella, Ret.

Apr 2012 · iUniverse

About this ebook

The Battle for Baqubah: Killing Our Way Out is a firsthand account—and sometimes a minute-by-minute tale—of a raw, in-your-face street fight with Al Qaeda militants over a fifteen-month span in the volatile Diyala Province of Iraq. This story is presented through the eyes of a first sergeant serving with B Company 1-12 Cavalry (Bonecrushers), 1st Cavalry Division, out of Fort Hood, Texas.

The author takes the reader into the midst of the conflict in and around Baqubah—Iraq’s “City of Death”—a campaign that lasted most of 2007. The author and his fellow Bonecrushers watched as the city went from sectarian fighting amongst the Shiite and Sunnis, to an all-out jihad against the undermanned and dangerously dispersed US forces within Baqubah and the outlying areas.

Ratings and reviews

I accidently ran across this book. Looking back on this deployment and being a member of the Charger BN and remembering 1SG Colella, It was interesting to see the deployment through his eyes and remembering many of the events. This book is "two scoops of hooah"!

I was with the platoon attached to delta so it was interesting to get little more of the "big picture" of what was happening in the other sectors all these years later.

An accurate accounting of life at war, but could have used more color and insight. reads more like a spreadsheet than a novel.