Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
Coming from The Penguin Press in February 2009, Thomas E. Ricks's The GambleThomas E. Ricks 's #1 New York Times bestseller, Fiasco, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. Now Ricks has picked up where Fiasco left off-Iraq, late 2005. With more newsbreaking information, including...
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Coming from The Penguin Press in February 2009, Thomas E. Ricks's The GambleThomas E. Ricks 's #1 New York Times bestseller, Fiasco, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. Now Ricks has picked up where Fiasco left off-Iraq, late 2005. With more newsbreaking information, including hundreds of hours of interviews with top U.S. officials who were on the ground during the surge and beyond, The Gamble is the natural companion piece to Fiasco, and the two are sure to become the definitive examinations of what ultimately went wrong in Iraq.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143038917 (0143038915)
ASIN: 143038915
Publish date: July 31st 2007
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Literature,
American,
Journalism,
War,
Military,
Politics,
American History,
United States,
Military History
Date Published: July 25, 2006 Format: Audiobook Source: Library borrow Date Read: April 10-12, 2019 Blurb: This is the Story of The American Military Adventure in Iraq. The Heart of the story Fiasco has to tell, which has never been told before, is that of a Military occupation whose leaders faile...
This is the definitive book on the Iraq War to date. It provides ample evidence that the G.W. Bush regime, along with the Pentagon and the CIA, made a false casus belli for war with Iraq, keenly anticipating an easy victory with Iraqis greeting American soldiers with garlands of flowers as liberat...
I lived through the time period this book describes, as a stateside civilian, and I had during that time many misgivings, all as it turns out very well founded. My brother, an Army Reservist, was deployed in the invasion force, PsyOps with the 101st Division, and so I was watching what happened wit...
Fiasco offers a very detailed look into the disaster that has been the US invasion of Iraq. For those of us who have read more than a few books on the subject there is an unavoidable repetition of information seen elsewhere, but there is sufficient new material to justify one’s time. Ricks covers th...
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