Balanced, panoramic assessment of the Iraq War by former
Marine and Reagan administration veteran West No True Glory, 2005,
etc., who heralds American soldiers as its unsung heroes amid the
fog of Washington". . .A timely, eye-opening historical analysis
that provides clarity around the difficult choices the next
president faces." —Kirkus, starred review
"In this important new chronicle of the war in Iraq, Bing West
reveals how America reached the brink of defeat in 2006 and then
manag
關於作者:
Bing West was assistant secretary of defense for international
security affairs under President Ronald Reagan. He served in the
Marine infantry in Vietnam. Later, as an analyst at the RAND
Corporation, he wrote the Vietnam classic The Village, that
war colleges use as a primer in counterinsurgency. As a
correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, West has covered the
war for five years. His books on Iraq - No True Glory: A
Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah and The March
Up: Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines co-authored
with MajGen Ray Smith–have won the Marine Corps Heritage
Foundation’s General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for nonfiction,
the Colby Award for military nonfiction, and the Veteran of Foreign
Wars Media Award. West is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations; his articles appear in The New York Times, The
Wall St. Journal, and other major newspapers. He appears on
National Public Radio and The Newshour with Jim
Lehrer.
From the Hardcover edition.