PLAYING NICE IN THE SANDBOX: One Soldier's Stories and Observations from the Battle for Hearts and Minds

When the history of the Iraq war is written, it will come from the memoirs of people like SGT (ret.) Steve Goldblatt. At the introspective age of thirty-eight, he left the business world behind and found himself crossing the border from Kuwait into Iraq at the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a Civil Affairs Specialist with the 308th Civil Affairs Brigade. Their mission: To win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.