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Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines
Bantam
October 2004
On Sale: October 12, 2004
336 pages
ISBN: 0553382691
EAN: 9780553382693
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Non-Fiction
With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail,
here is a first hand account of the 22-day march to Baghdad
that takes you behind the scenes and to the front
line...
No one reporting on the war in Iraq had the
unique battlefield clearance afforded the authors of this
dramatic eyewitness account. Unlike embedded journalists
confined to a single unit, West and Smith acquired a
captured yellow SUV and joined with whatever unit was
leading the assault every day of the fight. The result is a
report of what really happened from the heart of the action
unlike anything you’ll read anywhere else.
“While we
will move swiftly and aggressively against those who resist,
we will treat all others with decency, demonstrating
chivalry and soldierly compassion for people who have
endured a lifetime under Saddam’s oppression.”—Major General
J.N. Mattis, 1st Marine Division, Commanding
Here is
the story that can be told only by those who actually
witnessed the action of the famed 1st Marine Division’s
march on Baghdad, from the shaky beginning of U.S.
operations in southern Iraq to the capture of U.S.
prisoners, the misreported “fierce Iraqi resistance,” and
the aggressive assaults that led to a quick and decisive
victory.
With over a half century of military and
combat experience between them, bestselling author F. J.
“Bing” West and Major General Ray L. Smith, USMC (Ret.),
combine expert military analysis with dramatic battlefield
reporting. They bring the reader on a march that ended in
victory—but was shadowed by second-guessing, unexpected
reversals, and the threat of catastrophe.
With
access to three-star generals in the command centers and to
privates in the field, the authors reveal how the strategic
plan played out in battle, showing what went well and what
failed, and detailing power struggles for military and
political control never reported. The result is destined to
become the definitive account of ground warfare in Iraq.
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