Boots on the Ground A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq |
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| Author:
| Zinsmeister, Karl |
| ISBN: | 978-0-312-32664-7 |
| Publisher: | St. Martin's Press
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| Imprint: | Saint Martin's Paperbacks |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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"This is an account of the war in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division as it convoys north from Kuwait to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its bridges across the Euphrates. Karl Zinsmeister, a frontline reporter embedded with the 82nd, brilliantly conveys the careful planning and technical wizardry that go into today's warfare, even local firefights, and he brings to life the constant air-ground interactions that are the...
More Description"This is an account of the war in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division as it convoys north from Kuwait to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its bridges across the Euphrates. Karl Zinsmeister, a frontline reporter embedded with the 82nd, brilliantly conveys the careful planning and technical wizardry that go into today's warfare, even local firefights, and he brings to life the constant air-ground interactions that are the great innovation of modern precision combat."--BOOK JACKET.