The team : West Point rugby 2002 -- Shitsucker -- Aldershot -- Point -- Eatontown -- Beast -- Stoneboro -- Rugby -- Fullerton -- Play -- September -- Brothers -- Finals -- Ranger -- Conroe -- Benning -- War -- Baghdad -- Rustamiyah -- Convoy -- After -- Arlington -- Clint.
Summary:
Six months after 9/11, U.S. troops were on the ground in Afghanistan; less than a year later, America invaded Iraq. Brotherhood follows players on West Point's fiercely passionate rugby team as they became members of the first class to graduate in wartime since the days of Vietnam. Of the rugby-playing teammates in West Point's class of 2002 who went to war, some came home and others didn't. Capt. Jimmy Gurbisz, one of the team's forwards, came from blue-collar New Jersey, achieved his dream by entering West Point, discovered a new sport there, fell in love with it, excelled, but suffered an injury which led directly to his tragic death in a blast of flame and steel on a dusty Baghdad street. Team players Zac Miller and Joey Emigh died away from war, but no less tragically. This book captures banding together on the rugby field with the same men whose lives they'll have to fiercely protect on the battlefield.
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