Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy Seals

An 'infuriating, fast-paced' (The Washington Post) account of the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon, the startling accusations against their chief, Eddie Gallagher, and the courtroom battle that exposed the dark underbelly of America's special forces--from a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter WINNER OF THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD - 'Nearly impossible to put down.'--Jon Krakauer, New York Times bestselling author of Where Men Win Glory and Into the Wild In this 'brilliantly written' (The New York Times Book Review) and startling account, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent David Philipps reveals a powerful moral crucible, one that would define the American military during the years of combat that became known as 'the forever war.' When the Navy SEALs of Alpha platoon returned from their 2017 deployment to Iraq, a group of them reported their chief, Eddie Gallagher, for war crimes, alleging that he'd stabbed a prisoner in cold blood and taken lethal sniper shots at unarmed civilians.