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At the heart of the drama were the fifty or so young Marines, most of whom had never been to war, who were embroiled in a battle of epic proportions from which neither their commanders nor the technological might of the U.S. military could save them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a novelist’s gift for pace and tension, Tim Pritchard brilliantly captures the chaos, panic, and courage of the fight for Nasiriyah, bringing back in full force the day that a perfunctory task turned into a battle for survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Ambush Alley\" is a gut-wrenching account of unadulterated terror that's hard to read yet impossible to put down. 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