Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad - Softcover

Zucchino, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080214179X ISBN 13: 9780802141798

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080214179X
• ISBN 13: 9780802141798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 345