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American Heroes Radio
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New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah
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Richard S. Lowry, USN, “is an
internationally recognized military historian, author and eleventh generation American. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy Submarine
Service. He published The Gulf War Chronicles in 2003. He has been published in Military Magazine, Leatherneck and the Marine
Corps Gazette. Berkley Publishing released Richard’s next full-length book, Marines in the Garden of Eden in June of
2006. It is the story of America’s sons and daughters, who fought, bled, and died in a dusty desert town on the banks
of the Euphrates River.
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Richard has spoken to many community
organizations such as local chapters of the Military Officers Association, the Daughters of the American Revolution, Marines
for Life, Marine Corps League and the Florida Retired Chief Petty Officers Association on many different subjects relating
to the current war in Iraq and Operation Desert Storm. He is a member in the Florida Writers Association and founder of The
Orlando Writers Guild
In June of 2004, Richard was
awarded a research grant from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and was invited to the Marine Corps Historical Center to
research the events of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Richard maintains a vast collection of Gulf War documentation. He has compiled
over four hundred hours of audio recordings of his and other interviews as well as thousands of pages of documentation.”
Richard S. Lowry is the author of Marines in the Garden of Eden: The True Story of Seven Bloody Days in Iraq;
US Marine in Iraq: Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003; and, The Gulf War Chronicles: A Military History of the First War with Iraq.
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According to the book description of
New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah, “Fallujah. Few names conjure up as many images of blood,
sacrifice, and valor as does this ancient city in Al Anbar province forty miles west of Baghdad. This sprawling concrete jungle
was the scene of two major U.S. combat operations in 2004. The first was Operation Vigilant Resolve, an aborted effort that
April by U.S. Marines intent on punishing the city's insurgents. The second, Operation Phantom Fury, was launched seven months
later. Richard Lowry's 'New Dawn: The Battles for Fallujah' is the first comprehensive history of this fighting.
Also known as the Second Battle for
Fallujah, Operation Phantom Fury was a protracted house-to-house and street-to-street combat that began on November 7 and
continued unabated for seven bloody and exhausting weeks. It was the largest fight of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the heaviest
urban combat since the Battle of Hue City, Vietnam in 1968. Death and redemption were found everywhere, from narrow streets
to courtyards, kitchens, bedrooms, and rooftops. By the time the fighting ended, more than 1,400 insurgents were dead, compared
to ninety-five Americans (and another 1,000 wounded).”
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