Shadow of the Sword

Shadow of the Sword: A Marine's Journey of War, Heroism, and Redemption (ISBN 978-0-345-51212-3) is an autobiographical account of post-traumatic stress disorder by Jeremiah Workman, who served with the US Marine Corps in the Iraq War.

Shadow of the Sword: a Marine's journey of war, heroism, and redemption

Author	Jeremiah Workman, John R Bruning
Language	English
Genre	History
Publisher	Ballantine Books
Publication date	2009
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	253 pages
ISBN	9780345512123
OCLC	290468892
LC Class	DS79.76 .W67 2009

Workman received the Navy Cross for gallantry under fire after killing twenty insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq, on December 23, 2004, but later suffered flashbacks reliving the death of three fellow marines in the battle. He also describes having been ordered to "push at least two recruits into suicide attempts" while a drill instructor, an episode that a WSJ reviewer calls "the only part of the book that sounds implausible, given the standards that define the Marines".^{[1][unreliable source?]}