Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks

Fiasco by Thomas E Ricks

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize * One of the Washington Post Book World's 10 Best Books of the Year * Time's 10 Best Books of the Year * USA Today's Nonfiction Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book

"Staggeringly vivid and persuasive . . . absolutely essential reading." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"The best account yet of the entire war." --Vanity Fair

The definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq

Fiasco is a masterful reckoning with the planning and execution of the American military invasion and occupation of Iraq, drawing on exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American personnel, including more than one hundred senior officers, and access to more than 30,000 pages of official documents, many of them never before made public. Tragically, it is an undeniable account--explosive, shocking, and authoritative--of unsurpassed tactical success combined with unsurpassed strategic failure that indicts some of America's most powerful and honored civilian and military leaders.

Thomas E. Ricks is a national security adviser at the New America Foundation and a member of the Future of War project. He was a fellow at the Center for a New American Security before joining Foreign Policy magazine as a contributing editor, where he publishes the award-winning blog The Best Defense. He was a part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams that covered the United States. Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq all have military activities. He is the author of many books, including The Generals, The Gamble, and Fiasco, which was a Pulitzer Prize nominee and was the number one New York Times bestseller. Churchill and Orwell: The Battle For Freedom, his most recent book, is a New York Times bestseller.

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ISBN 13	9780143038917
ISBN 10	0143038915
Title	Fiasco
Author	Thomas E Ricks
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2007-07-31
Number of pages	528
Prizes	Winner of Pulitzer Prize (Non-Fiction).
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