Tell me how this ends : General David Petraeus and the search for a way out of Iraq / Linda Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Linda, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petraeus, David Howell.

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Campaigns.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Petraeus, David Howell--Interviews.

Postwar reconstruction--Iraq.

Postwar reconstruction.

Iraq.

United States--Politics and government--2001-2009.

United States.

Politics and government.

Iraq--Politics and government--2003-.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xix, 411 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : PublicAffairs, [2008]

Summary:

After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war. On the ground in Iraq, with General Petraeus and his commanders, the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Masters of Chaos" reports on the endgame of this controversial war.

Contents:

The genesis of a civil war

A failing war, and the decision to surge

David Howell Petraeus

The Petraeus team launches

Fard al-Qanoon, the Baghdad security plan

The political puzzle

Downsizing expectations

The blue spaders into the inferno

The knights of Ameriya

The sons of Iraq

Full-court press

The September reckoning

The drawdown begins, and the cease-fire spreads

To the brink again

Tell me how this ends.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-391) and index.

ISBN:

9781586485283

1586485288

OCLC:

191926324