Full name: Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad

Author: David Zucchino Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780802141798 080214179X

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. Similar books: The Strongest Tribe by Bing West In the Company of Soldiers by Rick Atkinson The Gamble by Thomas E. Ricks No True Glory by Bing West The Iraq War by John Keegan Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon The Long Road Home by Martha Raddatz House to House by David Bellavia The Good Soldiers by David Finkel The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson My War by Colby Buzzell Generation Kill by Evan Wright We Were One by Patrick K. O'Donnell Fiasco by Thomas E. Ricks Joker One by Donovan Campbell 13 Hours by Mitchell Zuckoff WAR by Sebastian Junger Red Platoon by Clinton Romesha Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Indianapolis by Lynn Vincent