Bloodied by Starlight

By Laforce, Jonathon

Book Id: WPLBN0003548826
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Reproduction Date: 2014

Title:	Bloodied by Starlight
Author:	Laforce, Jonathon
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Language:	English
Subject:	Nonfiction, Military, Autobiography
Collections:	Science Fiction Collection, Baen Library Collection
Historic Publication Date:	2014
Publisher:	Baen Publishing Enterprises


Citation APA MLA Chicago Laforce, J. (2014). Bloodied by Starlight. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
Description: Jonathon LaForce goes into detail about his first battle with the Taliban when he was in the Marines.

Summary
Summary: Jonathon LaForce and his fellow marine brothers enter battle with the Taliban. It's their first real battle after being deployed and expresses how terrifying their first experience was in combat.

Excerpt
Excerpt: I was growling by then, making sounds more fit for a raging Sith Lord. But I was totally and completely calm. No sweating, no shakes, no hesitation. Simply the mind of a man drilled in his craft. This is what sergeants and corporals have built with throughout the centuries: mortal men, the greatest and most challenging of all materials. From it they craft professional soldiers fit to wear the cloth of a nation, to bear arms in her name across the sands of foreign lands known colloquially—

Table of Contents
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