Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Ricks, Thomas E.

ISBN 10: 159420103X / ISBN 13: 9781594201035

Published by The Penguin Press, New York, 2006

About this Item

Pp: xiv + 482. Gilt titles: sp. Illust. w/ b/w maps, portraits, photos, charts & cartoons. Red bds. Interior leaves are clean and tight. An account of the American military experience in Iraq. Includes cast of characters, notes & index. Was Irag a military and political disaster? Read this and you can decide for yourself.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
• Publisher: The Penguin Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159420103X
• ISBN 13: 9781594201035
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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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.