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Takedown : the 3rd Infantry Division's twenty-one day assault on Baghdad / by Jim Lacey.
LIBRA DS79.76 .L325 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lacey, Jim, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 3rd.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 267 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The colonels' war
- The breach (20-21 March)
- First clash: Tallil Air Base (21 March)
- The Ba'ath armies
- Samawah: we planned a parade (22-24 March)
- Battle of the LOCs (22-30 March)
- Objective rams (22-23 March)
- The escarpment (23-24 March)
- Ambush alley (24-25 March)
- "Tell Saddam we're winning"
- Najaf: the hornets' nest (25-27 March)
- Al Kifl (26-29 March)
- Riding to the cavalry's rescue (27-29 March)
- The dark hours
- Karbala (1 April)
- Objective peach (2 April)
- The other side of the hill
- Saints and south (3-5 April)
- The cavalry heads west (3-7 April)
- Before the crash: under the sniper's scope
- Baghdad International Airport (4-5 April)
- Thunder run I (5 April)
- Titans (4-8 April)
- Thunder run II: collapse of the regime (7 April)
- Reflections
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781591144588
- 1591144582
- OCLC:
- 74941942
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