David Zucchino

Thunder Run

The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad

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In one of the boldest gambles in modern military history, just 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 5 million people and, in three bloddy days of combat ended the Iraqi war. Thunder Run is the story of the surprise assault on Baghdad-one of the most decisive battle in American combat history-by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized).More than just a rendering of a single battle, Thunder Run is a candid account of how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-55584-764-7
EAN: 9781555847647
Produktnummer: 31911169
Verlag: Grove Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

David Zucchino, a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, was embedded with the Second Brigade during the Iraqi war and has covered wars in more than a dozen nations. A four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, he was awarded the 1989 Pulitzer for feature writing for his dispatches from apartheid South Africa. He shared, with his Los Angeles Times colleagues, Overseas Press Club awards in 2001 for reporting on Al Qaeda terrorist cells in Europe and in 2002 for coverage of Afghanistan. He is also the author of Myth of the Welfare Queen and editor of The Philadelphia Enquirer Black Hawk Down and Killing Pablo newspaper serials that became the best-selling books.