Patrick K. O'Donnell

The 15th Alabama and the other elements of John Bell Hood's brigade were extraordinary this day, as well as those in the Union Army.

This was a hold at all costs and a take at all costs.

This is one of the great inflection points in history.

I touch upon this a little bit in The Unvanquished, which is out in trade paperback this week.

It's there that Mosby plays a role indirectly of leading Jeff Stewart's Calvary Corps on a long raid where they're exactly in the wrong place at the wrong time, where they could have been Lee's eyes and ears at Gettysburg.

Yeah.

I was with 3-1 and the assault force at Fallujah.

And I wrote We Were One, which is on the Commandant's reading list.

And yeah, I participated in sense of giving Michael Peck some of that footage for the last 600 meters, which is a great, great film, a tremendous film.

I remember watching it for the first time.

It was about a year after the battle and I started to tear up.

It was emotional.

It was an emotional experience to sort of relive Fallujah

Right at the front of the store at Barnes & Noble, they have a history table, and the soft cover just came out this week.

They're there.

Amazon.com is a great place to go.

And at Combat Historian if you want to see all the reviews on the books and, you know, those that have commented on them and everything else, and there's excerpts, et cetera.

I don't want to say it's not the right thing to do.

It's the right thing to do, but I just don't want to.

Is what your study shows