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Alpha - A Reckoning for the Navy Seals

English · Paperback / Softback

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About the author

David Philipps is a Pulitzer Prize-winning national correspondent for The New York Times, where he writes about the military and veterans. He has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer twice, and has won a number of other national-level awards, including the Livingston Award and Ford Prize for military reporting.

Summary

The shocking, true story of a soldier gone rogue, and the court martial case that divided America.

This is the full story of Eddie Gallagher, a US recruit who was inspired to serve his nation, who became addicted to combat, and whose need to prove himself among his fellow soldiers pushed him to extremes. His actions during a combat deployment to Mosul would divide his platoon, then the SEALs, the Navy, the armed forces, the government, and even the American public, when the President intervened in his trial.

Alpha is an examination of how culture within the military has evolved since 9/11. In an endless war without major victories, the media has instead celebrated achievements of SEAL missions — such as the killing of Osama Bin Laden, the rescuing of Captain Phillips, and the survival of Marcus Luttrell. But the SEALs’ popularity blinded the public to what was also happening within the armed forces. When Gallagher was accused of killing an unarmed enemy combatant, it created a scandal that reached the White House and millions around the world.

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‘I’ve been haunted these last few days by Alpha … It’s engrossing, full of horror and deeply damning.’

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