Highway of Death: One Man's Memoir of Revitalizing the Middle East One Sheep at a Time
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Highway of Death: One Man's Memoir of Revitalizing the Middle East One Sheep at a Time
Sale price
$28.99
Regular price $34.99
What happens when a Marine-turned–financial advisor trades his desk job for Iraq’s most dangerous road?
In Highway of Death, Braxton Hamilton delivers a gripping, darkly funny memoir that takes you from the quiet cornfields of America to the chaos of Baghdad—not as a soldier, but as part of a little-known Department of Defense mission to restart an economy crushed by decades of dictatorship, sanctions, and war.
Armed with grit, humor, and a salesman's stubborn streak, Hamilton joined a ragtag team of engineers, economists, and ex-executives tasked with doing the impossible: put Iraqis back to work in the middle of a war zone. From reviving factories in the “Triangle of Death” to sourcing wool for women’s cooperatives in the mountains, to negotiating multimillion-dollar tractor deals under mortar fire, Hamilton reveals the absurd, dangerous, and surprisingly human side of economic warfare.
Readers will feel the concussive thud of incoming rockets, laugh at goat milk mishaps in Kurdistan, and see how even small victories sparked hope in communities that had known only violence. With unfiltered honesty and gallows humor, Hamilton pulls back the curtain on life inside Camp Victory and beyond the wire, blending battlefield tension with boardroom negotiations in ways few have ever dared to write.
If you loved The Operators by Michael Hastings or War Front to Store Front by Paul Brinkley, you’ll find yourself riveted here.
Pick up Highway of Death today and experience a raw, unforgettable memoir that proves rebuilding a country can be as sketchy—and as courageous—as fighting for it.
In Highway of Death, Braxton Hamilton delivers a gripping, darkly funny memoir that takes you from the quiet cornfields of America to the chaos of Baghdad—not as a soldier, but as part of a little-known Department of Defense mission to restart an economy crushed by decades of dictatorship, sanctions, and war.
Armed with grit, humor, and a salesman's stubborn streak, Hamilton joined a ragtag team of engineers, economists, and ex-executives tasked with doing the impossible: put Iraqis back to work in the middle of a war zone. From reviving factories in the “Triangle of Death” to sourcing wool for women’s cooperatives in the mountains, to negotiating multimillion-dollar tractor deals under mortar fire, Hamilton reveals the absurd, dangerous, and surprisingly human side of economic warfare.
Readers will feel the concussive thud of incoming rockets, laugh at goat milk mishaps in Kurdistan, and see how even small victories sparked hope in communities that had known only violence. With unfiltered honesty and gallows humor, Hamilton pulls back the curtain on life inside Camp Victory and beyond the wire, blending battlefield tension with boardroom negotiations in ways few have ever dared to write.
If you loved The Operators by Michael Hastings or War Front to Store Front by Paul Brinkley, you’ll find yourself riveted here.
Pick up Highway of Death today and experience a raw, unforgettable memoir that proves rebuilding a country can be as sketchy—and as courageous—as fighting for it.