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Based on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history. Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of 5 million people and in three days of bloody combat ended the Iraqi war. Thunder Run is the story of the surprise assault on Baghdad—one of the most decisive battles in American combat history—by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized). More than just a rendering of a single battle, Thunder Run candidly recounts how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone. The product of over a hundred interviews with commanders and men from the Second Brigade, Thunder Run is a riveting firsthand account of how a single armored brigade was able to capture an Arab capital defended by one of the world's largest armies.
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Thunder Run, David Zucchino, Mark Bowden
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2004
- Vazba
- (měkká),
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- Cena
- 259 Kč
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- Titul
- Thunder Run
- Podtitul
- The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad - With a New Afterword from the Author
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- David Zucchino, Mark Bowden
- Vydavatel
- Grove Press
- Rok vydání
- 2004
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 368
- ISBN10
- 080214179X
- ISBN13
- 9780802141798
- Série
- Kategorie
- Štítky
- Historické téma, USA, Válečná próza, Války, 21. století, Irák, Bagdád, Vojenské zpravodajství
- Anotace
- Based on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history. Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of 5 million people and in three days of bloody combat ended the Iraqi war. Thunder Run is the story of the surprise assault on Baghdad—one of the most decisive battles in American combat history—by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized). More than just a rendering of a single battle, Thunder Run candidly recounts how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone. The product of over a hundred interviews with commanders and men from the Second Brigade, Thunder Run is a riveting firsthand account of how a single armored brigade was able to capture an Arab capital defended by one of the world's largest armies.