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SURGE
MY JOURNEY WITH GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS AND THE REMAKING OF THE IRAQ WAR |
| By: |
Peter R. Mansoor, David Petraeus (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300209371 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300209372 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 November, 2014 |
| Series: |
Yale Library of Military History |
| Pages: |
392 |
| Description: |
In February 2007, US Army General David Petraeus took command of the multinational coalition forces in Iraq deployed to support the controversial strategy known as the surge. This book views the unfolding of the surge and its impact on the violence that was devastating Iraq. |
| Synopsis: |
The first full insider account of the troop surge in Iraq, told by a member of General David Petraeus's personal staff Surge is an insider's view of the most decisive phase of the Iraq War. After exploring the dynamics of the war during its first three years, the book takes the reader on a journey to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where the controversial new U.S. Army and Marine Corps counterinsurgency doctrine was developed; to Washington, D.C., and the halls of the Pentagon, where the Joint Chiefs of Staff struggled to understand the conflict; to the streets of Baghdad, where soldiers worked to implement the surge and reenergize the flagging war effort before the Iraqi state splintered; and to the halls of Congress, where Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus testified in some of the most contentious hearings in recent memory. Using newly declassified documents, unpublished manuscripts, interviews, author notes, and published sources, Surge explains how President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ambassador Crocker, General Petraeus, and other U.S. and Iraqi political and military leaders shaped the surge from the center of the maelstrom in Baghdad and Washington. |
| Illustrations: |
20 b-w illus + 2 maps |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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