Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs 2021 David Philipps SIGNED First Edition ~ Mosul, Iraq War ~ History

Title: Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs

Author: David Philipps

Description: Inscribed by author on half-title page. First Edition stated, first printing with full number line. Dust jacket shows light handling, slight scratch on rear panel; not price clipped; in an archival mylar sleeve. 443 pages.

In riveting detail, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent David Philipps reveals the story of a group of special operators caught in a moral crucible following their 2017 deployment to Mosul. Philipps also tells a larger story of how the SEAL Teams drifted off course after 9/11, and of the ''pirate'' subculture that festered within their ranks--a secret brotherhood that, in a time of endless war with few clear victories, made the act of killing itself the paramount goal.

The investigation and trial following Alpha's deployment--and Gallagher's ultimate acquittal on the most serious charges--would pit SEAL against SEAL, set the Navy brass on a collision course with President Donald Trump, and turn Gallagher into a political litmus test in a hotly polarized America.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Publisher: Crown
Place: New York
Year: 2021

ISBN: 9780593238387

Keywords: Armed Forces, biography, courts-martial, courts of inquiry, Iraq, Mosul, Iraq War, military campaigns, military discipline, murder, trials, litigation, Naval Special Warfare Command, SEAL Team Seven, Alpha Platoon, Navy, military life, war crime trials, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, United States,