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I recently recieved a review copy of a new book, written by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, now retired from the Army and a co-founder of Vets for Freedom. The book, House to House: An Epic Memoir of War, is Bellavia's personal account of the Second Battle of Fallujah.

At times horrifying and at times deeply moving, House to House is a book of astonishing power and inspiration as Bellavia comes face to face with both the savages of al Qaeda and the terrorist "insurgency" and with his own soul.

The Left likes to portray the American soldier as either victims of the Bush administration or victimizers of the Iraqi people. The media, too often, plays along. But the American soldiers are are, mostly, neither of those things. They are patriots doing hard work, doing it well, and doing it with honor.

I started reading House to House as soon as it came in the mail and soon had read 70 pages before I had to put it down and get back to work. But I didn't go to sleep until I finished it later that night.

It's that good.

Gripping from start to finish, House to House takes you along with Third Platoon, Alpha Company, as it fights house-to-house, sustaining heavy losses, in the Second Battle of Fallujah, some of the hardest urban combat of the War on Terror and yet a battle too few Americans really know much about. I finished the book and prayed a prayer of thanks to God that He provides America with fighting men like David Bellavia and his men, so that a few hundred million Americans can work and play and sleep and raise children in uninterrupted comfort.

Without soldiers like David Bellavia and the men of Third Platoon, Alpha Company, you and I and the rest of our fellow countrymen would soon be living - or, more likely, dying - under sharia law.

Here's a video of Bellavia discussing his experience in Iraq.

To withdraw from Iraq now, with victory increasingly within our grasp, as the Democratic Party seems hell-bent to do, would be nothing more than spitting on the graves of the men in Bellavia's platoon - and all the men and women who have given their lives to the cause of freeing Iraq from the grip of Islamofacist terror.