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Fiasco, August 2007
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Fiasco, August 2006
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FIASCO
By: Thomas E. Ricks

The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Penguin
August 2007
On Sale: July 31, 2007
492 pages
ISBN: 0143038915
EAN: 9780143038917
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Non-Fiction History | Non-Fiction Political

The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq from a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter

Thomas E. Ricks, senior Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post, puts forth in Fiasco a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, now with a preface on recent developments. Ricks draws on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel-including more than one hundred senior officers-and access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account-explosive, shocking, and authoritative-of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America's most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders.

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