Downriver

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Few war memoirs achieve the level of literary depth and emotional resonance of Downriver. -General David Petraeus US Army (Ret.)</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>A powerful Iraq War memoir about leadership trauma resilience and the search for meaning after battle.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Downriver: Memoir of a Warrior Poet</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Ryan McDermott takes readers from the front lines of the 2003 invasion of Iraq-where he led an infantry platoon in several intense battles including the Battle for Baghdad as part of the 3rd Infantry Division-through the collapse of Lehman Brothers during the 2008 financial crisis and into the private struggles of reintegration post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and fatherhood.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>This literary memoir explores the emotional toll of combat the burden of battlefield leadership and the collapse of identity that follows war and ambition. Told with raw honesty and poetic insight McDermott examines what it means to survive the battlefield only to face another war at home-with family with memory and with oneself.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Through vivid storytelling and combat-born poetry </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Downriver</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> offers a rare and unflinching account of a modern American warrior's journey-from patriotic idealism to disillusionment and ultimately to renewal. It speaks to veterans military families and anyone who has struggled to rebuild after loss.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>For readers of:</strong></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Long Walk Redeployment The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>and</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> No Easy Day.</em></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>More than a war memoir <em>Downriver</em> is a powerful meditation on identity trauma and redemption-and a reminder that the hardest battles often begin after the war ends.</strong></p><p></p>