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Author Mansoor, Peter R., 1960-

Title Baghdad at sunrise : a Brigade Commander's war in Iraq / Peter R. Mansoor ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 376 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series The Yale library of military history
Yale library of military history.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-365) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American
HISTORY -- Military.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Iraq
Genre/Form Personal narratives
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300142631
0300142633
1282352415
9781282352414
9786612352416
6612352418