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A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
Bantam
October 2006
On Sale: September 26, 2006
400 pages
ISBN: 0553383191
EAN: 9780553383195
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Non-Fiction
"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it
can describe it."–Senator John McCain
Fallujah:
Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major
battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one
American battalion after another tried to quell the
violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault.
Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and
thousands of Iraqis were left dead.
The epic battle
for Fallujah revealed the startling connections between
policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of
war.
The Marines had planned to slip into Fallujah
“as soft as fog.” But after four American contractors were
brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an attack on the
city–against the advice of the Marines. The assault sparked
a political firestorm, and the Marines were forced to
withdraw amid controversy and confusion–only to be ordered a
second time to take a city that had become an inferno of
hate and the lair of the archterrorist
al-Zarqawi.
Based on months spent with the battalions
in Fallujah and hundreds of interviews at every level–senior
policymakers, negotiators, generals, and soldiers and
Marines on the front lines–No True Glory is a
testament to the bravery of the American soldier and a
cautionary tale about the complex–and often
costly–interconnected roles of policy, politics, and battle
in the twenty-first century.
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