Anyone who has felt overwhelmed by insurmountable obstacles--and who has not?--may find this book a source of inspiration and reassurance. Danger Close is neither the ordinary compilation of "uplifting" stories, nor an amoral manual on "How to Prevail by Applying Ten Tactics of Highly Successful Terrorists." Though Yon does not hesitate to express his views--forcefully and sometimes controversially--this story is not a sermon. It is, mistakes, misadventures, and all, an object lesson in the value of fortitude, determination, and simple human justice. 
 Danger Close is the sometimes funny, sometimes moving, but always compelling account of a seemingly typical small boy becoming an exceptional young man. It ranges through the ordinary to the appalling, the grim and the joyous, the universally shared and the nearly unimaginable, all held together by the increasingly perceptive insights of the author.

Danger Close

Biographies & Memoirs

Yon, Michael

Yon, Mike

Memoirs

Apple Pie Publishers

Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'greatest Generation' of American Soldiers Is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope

History

Military

Richard Vigilante

In March 2004, two of Michael Yon’s longtime friends were killed in the war in Iraq. Others in active duty and serving in harm’s way, reached out to him with their perspectives on what was happening in Iraq. Their stories did not line up with reports from mainstream media. In December 2004, Yon landed in Baghdad to see reality for himself. He soon understood that the truth of this war was far too complex to be captured in a daily body count or a thirty-second sound bite. Committed to finding the truth, he stayed for most of the next three years. This book assembles nearly 250 dramatic photographs, many never before published, and selections from Yon’s most compelling battlefield dispatches from his time embedded with U.S. and Coalition forces in Iraq during 2005-2008. This hybrid war journal and stunning photography book vividly illustrates how the war in Iraq was ultimately won—not with technology or overwhelming force, but with courage, persistence, and American values.
Michael Yon is a former U.S. Special Forces Soldier turned independent war correspondent and author who has spent more collective time embedded with U.S. Coalition forces in Iraq than any other journalist. He has documented his missions with photographs and dispatches published on his award-winning website, and articles by and about him have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Los Angeles Times. He won Times Magazine’s Photo of the Year (Reader’s Choice) in 2005. His no-holds-barred reporting has earned him the respect of Soldiers and senior military leaders, as well as the appreciation of millions of readers around the world.

Iraq: Inside the Inferno, 2005-2008

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