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02426aam a2200361 i 4500 001 D0B72526AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240103010037 008 230214t20232023maua e b 000 0deng 020 $a 1567927114 020 $a 9781567927115 035 $a (OCoLC)1370175354 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d JUH $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Pengelly, Martin, $e author. 245 10 $a Brotherhood : $b when West Point Rugby went to war / $c Martin Pengelly ; introduction by H. R. McMaster. 246 30 $a When West Point Rugby went to war 264 1 $a Boston : $b Godine, $c 2023. 300 $a xxiv, 355 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a 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. 505 0 $a 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. 650 0 $a Iraq War, 2003-2011. 610 10 $a United States. $b Army. 610 20 $a United States Military Academy. 650 0 $a Rugby football. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a McMaster, H. R., $d 1962- $e writer of foreword. 941 $a 3 952 $l FYPI314 $d 20240202021656.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20240104010656.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20240103010554.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D0B72526AA0511EE99E4BB4527ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search