Martha Raddatz - The Long Way Home New Book Iraq War Soldiers & Families

Martha Raddatz ABC News Chief White House Correspondent is a highly respected journalist who has made more than 13 trips to Iraq during the past four years to cover the war. Martha recently visited the same marketplace in Baghdad that John McCain did. She discusses her experience during the Charlie Rose show on 4/13/07. She has authored a brand new book about her interviews, experiences, interactions with soldiers and their families and her embedded visits during the Iraq War.

Her ABC colleague Bob Woodruff has recently been featured on ABC News, Primetime, Nightline, Good Morning America, Imus in the Morning, and other news reports regarding the traumatic brain injury (TBI) Woodruff suffered when an IED (improvised explosive device) struck the tank in which he was riding and his amazing road back to recovery.

Martha was the first journalist to learn about and report Woodruff's injury in Iraq. Learn more about this brave reporter and the amazing soldiers she has come to know, love and respect.

"Gripping account!" "Vivid; personal; timely" "A horrifying story, clearly told"

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The Long Road Home: A Story of War and Family Release Date: March 2007

Selected Reviews of The Long Road Home:

Barnes & Noble: War has many fronts, many of which are not on the battlefield. ABC News journalist Martha Raddatz has spent several years both in Washington as the network's chief White House correspondent and on the ground in Iraq. In The Road Home, her first book, she follows the troops of the 1st Cavalry Division as they head off on their Sadr City patrols, then picks up the stories of the mothers, spouses, and families they left behind. This first-person, split-screen approach reveals the full experience of war more realistically than either a combat narrative or a home-front memoir. Vivid; personal; timely.

From the Publisher From ABC White House correspondent Martha Raddatz , the story of a brutal forty-eight-hour firefight that conveys in harrowing detail the effects of war not just on the soldiers but also on the families waiting back at home.

In April 2004, soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division were on a routine patrol in Sadr City, Iraq, when they came under surprise attack. Over the course of the next forty-eight hours, 8 Americans would be killed and more than 70 wounded. Back home, as news of the attack began filtering in, the families of these same men, neighbors in Fort Hood, Texas, feared the worst. In time, some of the women in their circle would receive "the call"-the notification that a husband or brother had been killed in action. So the families banded together in anticipation of the heartbreak that was certain to come.

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