In The Company Of Soldiers: A Chronicle Of Combat In Iraq

For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for the Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's US Army in combat.

Now, in this extraordinary account of his odyssey with the 101st, Atkinson presents an intimate and revealing portrait of the soldiers who fight the expeditionary wars that have become the hallmark of our age.

With the eye of a master storyteller, the premier military historian of his generation puts us right on the battlefield. In the Company of Soldiers provides us with a vivid, utterly fresh view of the modern soldier in action.