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Baghdad at sunrise : a Brigade Commander's war in Iraq / Peter R. Mansoor ; foreword by Donald Kagan and Frederick Kagan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mansoor, Peter R., 1960-
- Series:
- Yale library of military history.
- The Yale library of military history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359- 365) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-35241-5
- 9786612352416
- 0-300-14263-3
- OCLC:
- 1024018326
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