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Title: Nightcap at Dawn

Subtitle: American Soldiers' Counterinsurgency in Iraq

Author: J.B. Walker

Narrator: Armando Duran

Format: Unabridged

Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-23-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, Military

Publisher's Summary:

A group of US soldiers emailed their observations and experiences from Iraq and their candid opinions on fighting an insurgency. This book is the result.

A group of U.S. soldiers emailed their observations and experiences from Iraq and their candid opinions on fighting an insurgency. This book is the result. This startling collection of emails is a thoughtful and compelling narrative that carries the reader from the alleys and city streets to the homes of long-suffering Iraqis, and from the soldiers concrete bunkers to the majestic army base. Along the way, the reader is asked to consider the puzzles posed for a disciplined army engaged with an enemy that hides amid - and indeed, targets - a civilian population.

Editorial Reviews:

Written collectively by a group of enlisted airborne infantry men under the pseudonym J. B. Walker Nightcap at Dawn details the counterinsurgency in Iraq through an assemblage of these soldiers' real notes on their lives. Jokingly conceived as an account of "the simple charms of soldiering", what results is a firsthand account of the reality of Iraq through the veil of "experiences, expressions, imaginations, and hallucinations". Armando Durans unflinching performance of these mens words is an important glimpse into the grit and confusion of the counterinsurgency and its otherworldly battlefields, encounters with local peoples, intense complexities of daily life, and the reflections of the soldiers living it.

Members Reviews:

this is the sort of book that will lay out the harsh realities of following ROEs too closely and how a citizen-centric focus is

This is the kind of book that is hard to put down; the author truly immerses you in the life of an Army grunt deployed to Iraq having to fight an uphill battle in a way not envisioned.

If you are hoping to understand how complicated COIN is, this is the sort of book that will lay out the harsh realities of following ROEs too closely and how a citizen-centric focus is sometimes best for winning over the locals and undermining the support of insurgent groups.

Finally, many of you will love how the author employs imagery and symbolism, referring to insurgents as "rattlesnakes" among many other terms to visualize the battlespace "Walker" and his men encountered on the streets of Iraq.

Counterinsurgency Details

This is a creative non-fiction writing about the counter-insurgency avenues that should have been pursued by those in command during the Baghdad surge. Excellent writing by the enlisted soldiers serving day by night by day in their efforts to win tribal hearts against jihadi terrorism provides detailed accounts of their efforts to stay alive while offering assistance to Iraqi mothers, fathers and their children.

realistic, insightful, makes the war real

These men and women who are sent to fight a war that isn't theirs are REAL people. I couldn't help but admire them and wonder at their steadfastness to do be good soldiers in spite the difficulties inherent in fighting a counter insurgency war. I wish them the best and thank them for their service.

Excellent book about the Iraq War and what the soldiers ...

Excellent book about the Iraq War and what the soldiers on the ground experienced.