Cover image for A soldier's promise : the heroic true story of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy / by Daniel Hendrex with Wes Smith.
TITLE:
A soldier's promise : the heroic true story of an American soldier and an Iraqi boy / by Daniel Hendrex with Wes Smith.
Publication Date:
2006
Publication Information:
New York : Simon Spotlight Entertainment,
Physical Description:
262 p. : ill.
Summary:
After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, First Sergeant Daniel Hendrex was dispatched along with his unit, Dragon Company, to Husaybah, a small town bordering Syria in the Sunni-dominated Al Anbar Province in Iraq. Their mission was to plug the bottleneck at the border checkpoint, where foreign fighters and weapons smugglers were filtering through daily to join the increasingly menacing insurgency growing rapidly in the region. It was at this checkpoint, amid relentless attacks, that Daniel and his men found the most effective ally of the war effort in the most unlikely of sources. In December 2003 a skinny Iraqi kid about fourteen years old approached one of the soldiers at the border and said simply, "Arrest me." Jamil, as he was called, claimed to have valuable information about the insurgency, but First Sergeant Hendrex was skeptical -- especially when the boy announced that the man he wanted to turn in was his own father. The story that unfolds is one of heartbreaking tragedy, remarkable courage, and unprecedented resiliency, as this child of the insurgency takes it upon himself to fight back with the help of the U.S. Army...and loses everything in the process -- his country, his home, and his family.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781416911937