Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Ricks, Thomas E.

ISBN 10: 159420103X / ISBN 13: 9781594201035

Published by Penguin Press, New York, 2006

About this Item

Penguin Press, New York, 2006. First Edition, FIrst Printing. As New in an As New dustjacket. One quarter red cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine over red paper-covered boards. Spine is straight, binding is tight. The interior is clean and unmarked. The unclipped dustjacket show original $27.95 price, crisp and bright with no chips, tears or creases. Protected in a clear archival mylar cover. A flawless copy. Ricks provides a critical examination of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, focusing on the initial planning, miscommunication and mismanagement of the war. Carefully packaged and shipped in a sturdy cardboard box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
• Publisher: Penguin Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159420103X
• ISBN 13: 9781594201035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Darren Haggar, jacket design
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non-fiction
  • Military & Military History

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.