Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Ricks, Thomas, E.; Thomas E. Ricks

ISBN 10: 159420103X / ISBN 13: 9781594201035

Published by The Penguin Press/Published by the Penguin Group, New York, et al., 2006

About this Item

482 pp. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require extra postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur an additional shipping charge. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear. Extensive notes on inside cover board, first front-end page and second front-end page, as well as on half-title page, and on map pages. Corners and edges are slightly worn. Dust jacket shows minor wear around edges.

Seller Inventory # 1ivEh0001

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
• Publisher: The Penguin Press/Published by the Penguin Group, New York, et al.
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159420103X
• ISBN 13: 9781594201035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Amanda Dewey (Deisgn); Nicole Laroche (Photo Insert by); Gene Thorp (Maps by)
• Edition: Copyright © 2006
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Military Studies, Warfare, Terrorism, Nuclear St.
  • US Politics & History, Amer. Presidency
  • Current Affairs, Current Events, Politics

About this title

Synopsis

A military chronicle of the Iraq war is a critical assessment of America's role as viewed from the firsthand perspectives of senior military officers that argues that the guerrilla insurgency that took place in the months after the fall of Saddam Hussein was avoidable and that officers who spoke against the war did so at the cost of their careers. 200,000 first printing.

About the Author

Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty.