Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Autor Thomas E. Ricksen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2007 – vârsta de la 18 ani
Vezi toate premiile Carte premiată
Helen Bernstein Book Award (2007), Ambassador Book Awards (2007)
Coming from The Penguin Press in February 2009, Thomas E. Ricks's The Gamble
Thomas E. Ricks 's #1 New York Times bestseller, Fiasco, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. Now Ricks has picked up where Fiasco left off-Iraq, late 2005. With more newsbreaking information, including hundreds of hours of interviews with top U.S. officials who were on the ground during the surge and beyond, The Gamble is the natural companion piece to Fiasco, and the two are sure to become the definitive examinations of what ultimately went wrong in Iraq.
Thomas E. Ricks 's #1 New York Times bestseller, Fiasco, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. Now Ricks has picked up where Fiasco left off-Iraq, late 2005. With more newsbreaking information, including hundreds of hours of interviews with top U.S. officials who were on the ground during the surge and beyond, The Gamble is the natural companion piece to Fiasco, and the two are sure to become the definitive examinations of what ultimately went wrong in Iraq.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780143038917
ISBN-10: 0143038915
Pagini: 492
Ilustrații: 16-page b/w photo insert, two b/w maps in FM
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
ISBN-10: 0143038915
Pagini: 492
Ilustrații: 16-page b/w photo insert, two b/w maps in FM
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 31 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Recenzii
"Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading."
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The best account yet of the entire war."
-Vanity Fair
-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
"The best account yet of the entire war."
-Vanity Fair
Notă biografică
Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty.
Descriere
The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war--and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it--draws on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time.
Premii
- Helen Bernstein Book Award Nominee, 2007
- Ambassador Book Awards Winner, 2007