Aeschliman Publishes Book on Iraq War

LTC Roger Aeschliman spent a year in Iraq as the Chief of the Joint Visitors’ Bureau in Baghdad, guarding and escorting the world’s most senior dignitaries, traveling all over the country. These dignitaries included presidents, prime ministers, US cabinet secretaries, and more than 100 Congressmen or Senators.
Aeschliman has published an account of his mission in the Iraq War in his first published book, Victory Denied.

Aeschliman has included personal notes and letters to his wife, children, family and friends that help tell the whole story of a soldier leaving home to do his duty. These letters are tender and warm, sharing both the difficulties and triumphs a family faces in a lost year. And the additional comments appended to the weekly reports by Robyn, Aeschliman’s wife, truly add to the depth and quality of the narrative.

“Whether in medical care, transportation, education, public services, the creation of government structure and capacity at all levels, and the development of both the Iraqi military and police force, there has been tremendous progress made by the US military and the two dozen other allied nations,” Aeschliman says. “All of this has been ignored by the national media in favor of headline grabbing bombings and violence.”

VICTORY DENIED is many different books in one: an offbeat war memoir, a personal history of one man and his unit preparing for war, going there, doing the job and demobilizing, a sociological and historical review of the region, with a smattering of zoology, botany, astronomy, meteorology, poetry and theology thrown in. Aeschliman wrote home weekly to his wife and many of those stories were shared with the Topeka Rotary Club.

“I want to thank Rotary once again for its support,” he says.

Victory Denied can be purchased at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Borders or any local bookstore. It may also be purchased online from Authorhouse at www.authorhouse.com.