21 days to Baghdad : General Buford Blount and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War
Stur, Heather Marie, 1975-2023
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
An authoritative military history of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom, describing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the siege and fall of Baghdad, and the nation-building mission that followed. Historian Dr. Heather Stur describes the commitment of the division to Kuwait, the invasion of Iraq and the three weeks of violent desert conflicts on the way to Baghdad before the siege and battle for the city itself, and the 'thunder runs' that saw its fall to U.S. forces. She then details the complex security mission that required the soldiers and their commanders to convince Iraqi citizens that the U.S. was there to help them, while at the same time they continued fighting Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard, paramilitary forces, and terrorists.
Main title:
21 days to Baghdad : General Buford Blount and the 3rd Infantry Division in the Iraq War / Heather Marie Stur.
Author:
Imprint:
Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2023.Oxford : Osprey Publishing, 2023.
Collation:
320 pages : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781472853639 (hbk)
Dewey class:
956.70443373
Language:
English
Added title:
Subject:
BRN:
2846069