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Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks

Fiasco

The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005

The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005

The American Military Adventure in Iraq

By Thomas E. Ricks

By Thomas E. Ricks

By Thomas E. Ricks

By Thomas E. Ricks

By Thomas E. Ricks
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By Thomas E. Ricks
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Jul 31, 2007 | 512 Pages

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Jul 25, 2006 | 618 Minutes

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    About Fiasco

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
    One of the Washington Post Book World‘s 10 Best Books of the Year
    One of Time‘s 10 Best Books of the Year
    USA Today‘s Nonfiction Book of the Year
    A New York Times Notable Book

    The definitive account of the American military’s tragic experience in Iraq

    Fiasco is a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq through mid-2006, now with a postscript 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.

    About Fiasco

    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
    One of the Washington Post Book World‘s 10 Best Books of the Year
    One of Time‘s 10 Best Books of the Year
    USA Today‘s Nonfiction Book of the Year
    A New York Times Notable Book

    The definitive account of the American military’s tragic experience in Iraq

    Fiasco is a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq through mid-2006, now with a postscript 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.

    About Fiasco

    From the Washington Post‘s two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.

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    Also by Thomas E. Ricks

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    The Generals
    The Unraveling
    The Gamble
    A Soldier's Duty
    See all books by Thomas E. Ricks

    About Thomas E. Ricks

    Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its “Future of War” project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of Foreign… More about Thomas E. Ricks

    About Thomas E. Ricks

    Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its “Future of War” project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of Foreign… More about Thomas E. Ricks

    About Thomas E. Ricks

    Thomas E. Ricks is an adviser on national security at the New America Foundation, where he participates in its “Future of War” project. He was previously a fellow at the Center for a New American Security and is a contributing editor of Foreign… More about Thomas E. Ricks

    Product Details

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Politics

    Paperback | $19.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 31, 2007 | 512 Pages | 6 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780143038917

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Politics

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 25, 2006 | 512 Pages | ISBN 9781101201404

    Category: 1950 – Present Military History | Politics | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by Penguin Audio
    Jul 25, 2006 | 618 Minutes | ISBN 9781429585811

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    Praise

    “Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading.”
    -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

    “The best account yet of the entire war.”
    –Vanity Fair

    Awards

    Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction) WINNER

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