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Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
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Armed ForcesGeneral United States HistoryIraq War (2003-2011)
Publisher Price: $24.00
ISBN13: 9780802141798
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: Nov 29 2004
Pages: 345
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter provides a brilliant account of the harrowing drive into Baghdad by an American armor brigade. --Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Based on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history: the surprise assault on Baghdad by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized). Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of five million people--and in three days of bloody combat ended the Iraqi war.
More than just a rendering of a single battle, Thunder Run candidly recounts how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone. The product of over a hundred interviews with commanders and men from the Second Brigade, it is a riveting firsthand account of how a single armored brigade was able to capture an Arab capital defended by one of the world's largest armies.
The best account of combat since Black Hawk Down. --Men's Journal
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