Charlie Battery: A Marine Artillery Unit in Iraq (Hellgate Memories Series) (Hellgate Memories Series)

By Andrew Lubin

A gripping and heartfelt tale about the current war in Iraq, Charlie Battery is the detailed account of a Marine Corps artillery unit fighting and surviving in the deserts of Iraq. Written by the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555716423
• ISBN13: 9781555716424
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: L&R Publishing
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Chuck Battery

Hey this is Cpl Tarique Roberts. Anyone who remembers me from chuck battery please call me at 240-462-8249. My yahoo account is djtarique@yahoo.com. And this book is nice, buy 10 at a time. Good gob to the lubin family. oohhhraaaah

My experience

Well, I can't sit here and talk all day about a book that I lived. but I'll try to keep it short.This book was written with incredible detail. I will never forget the people, friends and fellow Marines in this book. It is a vast amount of memories that will be with me until I die. It was kind of hard to keep up with the events as they were unfolding back then.Things happened fast and sudden. A lot of times the lack of sleep, and the fatigue wouldn't let you think of, "What just happened?", but having this book that I can pick up whenever to remember those times, and the day where I can show my grandkids what grandpa did is a gift. I will never forget my time in the Corps,or the man who wrote about us Marines in Charlie. Now I know why Vietnam vets still keep in contact with each other. I do with the Marines in this book. I will never forget who they were, what they're hometown was, or the times we went through together. Nothing could ever take the brotherhood away from us. Semper Fi

Lubin puts you right on the gun line with our Marine hero's

Andrew Lubin brings the sights, sounds, and realism of Iraq to the reader! You can read this book and close your eyes and feel like you are in the place of the young Marines he is writing about. This is one of those infectious pieces of work that you simply cannot put down. As a recently retired US Air Force Chief Master Sergeant, who has "Been there and done that" and continues to travel throughout the Middle East, I can attest to the realness of events that Mr. Lubin describes throughout the book. I was able to sense the personal experience of Lubin, his son, and fellow Marines from the first pages. Throughout the book you can feel the realness of his words reaching out to grab you and put you on that gun line with our young Marines. The real e-mails and letters displayed in the book give you and insight to what the Marines were thinking and feeling throughout their deployment. If you don't read any other book about the war in Iraq, make sure you read this one. I promise you, it will keep you riveted in your seat, sofa, bed, or wherever you choose to read it.

A Must Read!

A must read for the parent who has a son or daughter currently serving in the Marines or considering an enlistment during these troubled times. Andrew Lubin paints a true and accurate word picture when describing the emotional roller coaster only a parent of a Marine can experience when knowing their son or daughter is forward deployed in harms way with an organization that prides itself in looking for a fight. For those of us directly involved in searching for that fight it is a unique glimpse into the minds of those loved ones we left behind. Non-military readers will find this book easy to follow as Lubin has taken complex military jargon and translated it into easy to understand passages. It is important to note, this book is not a detailed study of the Battle for Nasiriyah Iraq, which is referenced throughout the pages along with one chapter giving a brief overview of the battle itself. To date, the little that has been written about Nasiriyah has been either embellished or poorly written, which has unfortunately added much confusion to the historical significance of those days. However, Lubin's account of the battle is provided by personal interviews from the Marines and Sailors who actually fought for control of the city. When Lubin provides a quote you can consider it accurate and not paraphrased or cut and pasted from an unknown source. Lubin's detailed research and documentation gives "Charlie Battery: A Marine Artillery Unit in Iraq" absolute credibility. Semper Fi...

Powerful and Moving

Andrew Lubin's breakout book, a personal examinination of a U.S. Marine Corps artillery unit's experiences in the most recent Gulf War, is, in short, a triumph. With good reason, military personnel tend to be suspicious of journalists and writers these days. Lubin has overcome this obstacle magnificently, however, and displays in this work an incredible access to his subjects--both those on the ground and those who commanded them. This allows for a level of detail, sincerity, and connection impossible in one of the "book of the week" exposes of the war. Indeed, the biggest difference between Lubin and Tom Wolf is that Lubin actually talked to the people he quotes. With all of the bad news coming out of the Iraq war, it is encouraging to find a book that looks at the most positive aspects of those who have made the best of a bad situtation.