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Thunder Run
David Zucchino
其他書名
The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad
出版Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, 2007-12-01
主題History / Wars & Conflicts / Iraq War (2003-2011)History / United States / 21st CenturyHistory / Middle East / Iraq
ISBN15558476419781555847647
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pwaZeT1xNaoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋“A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter provides a brilliant account of the harrowing drive into Baghdad by an American armor brigade.” —Seattle Post-Intelligencer
 
Based on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Thunder Run chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history: the surprise assault on Baghdad by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized). 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 five million people—and in three days of bloody combat ended the Iraqi war.
 
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, it 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.
 
“The best account of combat since Black Hawk Down.” —Men’s Journal