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No True Glory - Fallujah and the Struggle in Iraq

By: Bantam Books

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Military Novels (Bantam Books)


Product Info

Title
No True Glory - Fallujah and the Struggle in Iraq
Publisher
Category
Author
Bing West
Publish Year
2005
Pages
656
Dimensions
6.25x9.25x1.25"
NKG Part #
2148188021
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

Fallujah: Iraq’s most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were left dead.

The epic battle for Fallujah revealed the startling connections between policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of war.

The Marines had planned to slip into Fallujah “as soft as fog.” But after four American contractors were brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an attack on the city–against the advice of the Marines. The assault sparked a political firestorm, and the Marines were forced to withdraw amid controversy and confusion–only to be ordered a second time to take a city that had become an inferno of hate and the lair of the arch terrorist al-Zarqawi.