| Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005 Contributor(s): Ricks, Thomas E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143038915 ISBN-13: 9780143038917 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2007 Annotation: The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war--and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it--draws on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Iraq War (2003-2011) - History | Military - United States |
| Dewey: 956.704 |
| Physical Information: 1.22" H x 6.08" W x 9.22" (1.28 lbs) 528 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 21st Century - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - One of the Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year - Time's 10 Best Books of the Year - USA Today's Nonfiction Book of the Year - A New York Times Notable Book Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times The best account yet of the entire war. --Vanity Fair The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq Fiasco is a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq through mid-2006, now with a postscript on recent developments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel, including more than one hundred senior officers, and access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account--explosive, shocking, and authoritative--of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America's most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders. |