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Fiasco

The American Military Adventure in Iraq

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Fiasco

By: Thomas E. Ricks
Narrated by: James Lurie
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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.

Unabridged CDs - 20 CDs, 24 hours©2006 Thomas E. Ricks; (P)2006 Penguin Audio, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
Middle East Military Politics & Government War Military Policy Iran Vietnam War Success Gulf War American Foreign Policy

Critic Reviews

"Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"The best account yet of the entire war." Vanity Fair
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anyone wanting an understanding in modern warfare and East versus West relations. Winning the war and the peace, that's the challenge.

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