About the Author

Mark Bowden is the author of Bringing the Heat and Doctor Dealer. He has been a reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer for eighteen years and has won many national awards for his writing. He has also written for Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Rolling Stone, Parade and other magazines.

Reviews

'Rip-roaring stuff, with one of the most gruesome battlefield wound treatments ever committed to paper'
*Maxim*

A thrilling and visceral no-holds-barred classic of modern war

'One of the most electrifying, immediate and detailed accounts of a single battle ever told...the whole 24-hour nightmare seems like it's happening to you'
*Later*