Thunder Run

The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad

von David Zucchino

345 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

"A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter provides a brilliant account of the harrowing drive into Baghdad by an American armor brigade." —Seattle Post-IntelligencerBased 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

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Krieg und Verteidigung Militär- und Verteidigungsstrategie Nachrichtendienst
• ISBN: 9780802141798
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.11.2004
• Größe: 226 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Grove Atlantic