Thunder Run The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad

by Zucchino, David; Bowden, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780802141798
• ISBN10: 080214179X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781555847647
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-29
• Publisher: Grove Press
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Summary

In one of the boldest gambles in modern military history, just 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 bloddy days of combat ended the Iraqi war. Thunder Run is the story of the surprise assault on Baghdad-one of the most decisive battle 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 is a candid account of how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone.