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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq Paperback – May 3, 2007
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Thomas E. Ricks
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Print length528 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherPenguin
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Publication dateMay 3, 2007
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Dimensions5.08 x 1.18 x 7.8 inches
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ISBN-100141028505
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ISBN-13978-0141028507
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Compelling and well-researched . . . "Fiasco" pulls no punches. . . . News on Iraq usually comes with blaring headlines, but Ricks' work allows us to fit seemingly disparate events into an overall pattern. ("The Washington Post")
著者について
Thomas E. Ricks is the Washington Post’s senior Pentagon correspondent. Until the end of 1999 he had covered the US military for The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. He has been a member of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for national reporting. Thomas E. Ricks has lived in Afghanistan and in Hong Kong and is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier’s Duty.
Product Details
- Publisher : Penguin (May 3, 2007)
- Publication date : May 3, 2007
- Language : English
- Paperback : 528 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0141028505
- ISBN-13 : 978-0141028507
- Dimensions : 5.08 x 1.18 x 7.8 inches
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Amazon Bestseller:
#61,771 in Foreign Language Books (See Top 100 in Foreign Language Books)
- #2 in Korean War Campaigns History
- #18 in Iraq War History
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A brilliant exposé of the ineptitude and almost certainly criminal US war in Iraq.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2019Verified Purchase
I thought I knew a lot about this war and how the stupidity and incompetence, downright ignorance in many areas, has caused thousands, if not millions of people to die and suffer. This book describes in great detail the unfolding horrors that power in the wrong hands can impose on the world. Emails, reports, conversations and comments take you step by step through the wrongheaded decisions and the complete lack of forward planning and foresight leaves the reader astounded at the sheer ineptitude of those who decide the fate of millions. A must read.
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D.C. Johnson
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The truth makes the USA look bad
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 7, 2019Verified Purchase
Sorry to say that, but the book is really a documentary of exactly what happened and how it turned out all wrong. No winners anywhere, both sides lost out. By the way, this war is STILL going on.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2020Verified Purchase
Excellent read. Should be required reading for all US military personnel.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 19, 2021Verified Purchase
Good non bias book that explores the subject well
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4.0 out of 5 stars
The chapter is yet to be closed
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2015Verified Purchase
A lucid and clear take on why the US failed in Iraq and highlights many of the key problems that were to follow. With this and the Gamble, by the same author what's desperately missing is the final chapter of this dark story in terms of the rise of Daesh and how that will end.
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