{"product_id":"9781619025516","title":"No Man's War: Irreverent Confessions of an Infantry Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003eRaised as an army brat, Angie Ricketts though she knew what she was in for when she eloped with Darrin - then an Infantry Lieutenant - on the eve of his deployment to Somalia. Since then, Darrin, now a Colonel, has been deployed eight times, serving four of those tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. And Ricketts has lived every one of those deployments intimately - distant enough to survive the years apart from her husband, but close enough to share a common purpose and a lifestyle they both love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith humor, candor, and a brazen attitude, Ricketts pulls back the curtain on a subculture many readers know, but few ill ever experience Counter to the dramatized snapshot seen on Lifetime's \u003ci\u003eArmy Wives\u003c\/i\u003e , Ricketts digs into the personalities and posturing that officers' wives must survive daily - whether navigating a social event at the base, suffering through a husband's prolonged deployment, or reacting to a close friend's death in combat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its core, \u003ci\u003eNo Man's War\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of sisterhood and survival. As Ricketts states: \"We tread those treacherous waters together. Do we sometimes shove each other's heads underwater for a few seconds? Maybe even on purpose? Of course. Are we sometimes dragged underwater ourselves by the undertow created by all of us struggling together too closely? Without a doubt. But we never let each other drown. Our buoyancy is our survival.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Counterpoint Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057722835184,"sku":"9781619025516","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619025516_p0.jpg?v=1763855029","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619025516","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}