Baghdad at sunrise : a Brigade Commander's war in Iraq /

Mansoor, Peter R., 1960-

Baghdad at sunrise : a Brigade Commander's war in Iraq / Peter R. Mansoor ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan. - New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008. - 1 online resource (xxvii, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps - The Yale library of military history . - Yale library of military history. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index.

Baghdad -- Rusafa -- "Bad karmah" -- Palm groves and blast barriers -- Ramadan -- Adhamiya -- New Year's interlude -- Winter in the desert -- Uprisings -- Karbala -- Transfer of sovereignty -- Reflections.

An on-the-ground commander describes his brigade's first year in Iraq after the U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency, in a firsthand analysis of success and failure in Iraq.


In English.

9780300142631 (electronic bk.) 0300142633 (electronic bk.) 1282352415 9781282352414 9786612352416 6612352418 (cloth ; alk. paper) (cloth ; alk. paper)

10.12987/9780300142631 doi

22573/ctt111s9q JSTOR BB9E5D4A-A591-495A-9107-7C54F05EFDBD OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com

GBA888003 bnb

Uk


2003-2011


Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.
HISTORY--Military.
HISTORY--General.--Middle East


Iraq.


Electronic books.
Personal narratives--American.

DS79.76 / .M358 2008eb

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