In lieu of showers, the "Ramrods" of the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment use baby wipes on their armpits and privates for what they call "whore's baths". House to House is a love letter to life in the modern infantry. In the Second Battle of Fallujah, however, an older Bellavia was forced to disregard his grandmother's teaching. Yet it will not shy from acknowledging this: sometimes it takes something as terrible as war for the full beauty of the human spirit to emerge.David Bellavia: House to House: An Epic Memoir of War His grandmother told a young David Bellavia to always fight fair, and never hit an opponent when he wasn't looking. It is honest.It is not a glorification of war. It is gut-wrenching, shocking and brutal. It is a raw, gritty look at killing and combat and how men react to it.
In the words of the author: "HOUSE TO HOUSE holds nothing back. It would take serveral more weeks before the Battle of Fallujah finally came to a close, with Bellavia, miraculously, alive. It is one of the most hair-raising battle stories of any age - yet it does not spell the end of Bellavia's service. One by one, he shoots, wrestles, stabs, and kills five of them, until his men arrive to take care of the final target. By the third day, Bellavia charges an insurgent-filled house and finds himself trapped with six enemy fighters. On the second day, he and his men laid siege to a mosque, only to be driven to a rooftop and surrounded, before heavy artillery could smash through to rescue them. David Bellavia of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, it quickly turned into a battle on foot, from street to street and house to house. On 8 November 2004, the largest battle of the War on Terror began, with the US Army's assault on Fallujah and its network of tens of thousands of insurgents hiding in fortified bunkers, on rooftops, and inside booby-trapped houses.
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