The Iraq War - Rilegato

Keegan, John

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ISBN 10: 1400041996 ISBN 13: 9781400041992

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2004

Riassunto

Author of the acclaimed The Face of Battle, and, most recently, Intelligence in War, John Keegan now brings his extraordinary expertise to bear on perhaps the most controversial war of our time.

The Iraq War is an urgently needed, up-to-date and informed study of the ongoing conflict. In exclusive interviews with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks, Keegan has gathered information about the war that adds immeasurably to our grasp of its causes, complications, costs and consequences. He probes the reasons for the invasion and delineates the strategy of the American and British forces in capturing Baghdad; he examines the quick victory over the Republican Guard and the more tenacious and deadly opposition that has taken its place. He then analyzes the intelligence information with which the Bush and Blair administrations convinced their respective governments of the need to go to war, and which has since been strongly challenged in both countries. And he makes clear that despite the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, regime change, and the use and misuse of intelligence, the war in Iraq is an undeniably formidable display of American power.

The Iraq War is authoritative, timely and vitally important to our understanding of a conflict whose full ramifications are as yet unknown.

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Recensione:

“The best military historian of our generation.”
—Tom Clancy

“While it is difficult to examine any on-going conflict in a vacuum, there will come a day when the battles stand alone. When that day comes, Keegan’s book will be judged the first and best on the subject.”
—Calgary Sun

“A brief outline that is authoritative (at least until further details will be known) and is more on the state of affairs on the other side of the hill, in Iraq, about which we know little.”
—Los Angeles Times

“What his account lacks in ground-level details, it more than makes up for with a panoramic perspective befitting the best-known (and perhaps the best, period) military historian in the world.”
—The Washington Post
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

John Keegan’s books include Intelligence in War and The Mask of Command. He is the defense editor of The Daily Telegraph (London). He lives in Wiltshire, England.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1400041996
• ISBN 13: 9781400041992
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224