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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005

Thomas E. Ricks - History - 2006 - 512 pages
Coming from The Penguin Press in February 2009, Thomas E. Ricks's The Gamble Thomas E. Ricks 's #1 New York Times bestseller, Fiasco, transformed the political dialogue on the ...
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The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

John Crawford - History - 2006 - 240 pages
In the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, a National Guardsman's account of the war in Iraq. John Crawford joined the Florida National Guard to pay for his college tuition ...
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Generation Kill

Generation Kill

Evan Wright - History - 2005 - 384 pages
Read Evan Wright's posts on the Penguin Blog. Read about the Penguin Group (USA) partnership with HBO in support of the Generation Kill Troop Drive here. They were called a ...
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AN Angel From Hell: Real Life on the Front Lines

AN Angel From Hell: Real Life on the Front Lines

Ryan A. Conklin - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 464 pages
With new material- the gripping war memoir by a young veteran and cast member of The Real World: Brooklyn. With new material about Ryan Conklin's second tour in Iraq, An Angel ...
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The battle for Fallujah: occupation, resistance and stalemate in the war in Iraq

The battle for Fallujah: occupation, resistance and stalemate in the war in Iraq

Vincent L. Foulk - History - 2007 - 232 pages
In May of 2003, Fallujah, Iraq, was a little known industrial town 45 minutes from Baghdad. There, heavily subsidized industries relied on the government of Sunni leader Saddam ...
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A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq

A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq

William Doyle - History - 2011 - 336 pages
For six months in 2006, a charismatic young U.S. Army captain and Arab linguist named Travis Patriquin unleashed a diplomatic and cultural charm offensive upon the Sunni Arab ...
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Danger Close: The Mike Yon Story

Danger Close: The Mike Yon Story

Mike Yon - 2000 - 432 pages
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My War: Kiling Time in Iraq

My War: Kiling Time in Iraq

Colby Buzzell - History - 2006 - 368 pages
An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army—and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and ...
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Buried Alive: The True Story of Kidnapping, Captivity, and a Dramatic Rescue

Buried Alive: The True Story of Kidnapping, Captivity, and a Dramatic Rescue

Roy Hallums - History - 2010 - 272 pages
A true-life adventure sure to shock as well as inspire. AK47s, masked thugs, and brutal urgency erupt from Roy Hallums' account of his abduction in Iraq, shredding through ...
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The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq

The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq

Thomas E. Ricks - History - 2009 - 416 pages
Thomas E. Rick's news-breaking follow up to the #1 New York Times bestseller Fiasco Now updated to fully document the inside story of the Iraq war since late 2005, The Gamble ...
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