The book details the general's rise through the ranks, from his time as a West Point cadet to serving in the 82nd Airborne Corps and earning his Special Forces Green Beret, and then commanding a battalion of the 75th Ranger regiment.

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He is married to Holly Petraeus, whom he met while he was a cadet at West Point and she was a student at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

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