Drowning in the Desert: A JAG's Search for Justice in Iraq

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In this revealing and troubling account of the misdeeds of soldiers in wartime, author and JAG officer Vivian Gembara takes readers along with her on a homecoming gone terribly awry. 'Drowning in the Desert' recalls Gembara's time in Iraq and the opening of case files, upon her return, that called for her to investigate the unsolved death of an Iraqi civilian, whose body was left floating in the Tigris River. In this spellbinding chronicle of legal and military history, readers will be drawn in by the hard-hitting narrative that moves like fiction, and captivated by the limits of patriotic fanaticism that paved the way for the conviction of the killers.