Mansoor, Peter R., 1960-

Baghdad at sunrise a Brigade Commander's war in Iraq / [electronic resource] : Peter R. Mansoor ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan. - New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008. - xxvii, 376 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps. - The Yale library of military history . - Yale library of military history. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.


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