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highly emotional true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery

the hara-kiri deaths of two top-ranking Japanese commanders

Blackwater Catherine Merridale co-author of The Why ofThe groundbreaking bestselling expose of the shadowy mercenary army that perpetrated horrific war crimes in America's name. On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square, leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U. S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces, subcontractors working for the