The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama

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Pantheon Books, 2012 - 779 من الصفحات

Eagerly anticipated in the wake of their national best seller Cobra II ("The superb, must-read military history of the invasion of Iraq"--Thomas L. Friedman), The Endgame is Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor's most ambitious and news-breaking book to date. A peerless work of investigative journalism and historical recreation ranging from 2003 to 2012, it gives us the first comprehensive, inside account of arguably the most widely reported yet least understood war in American history--from the occupation of Iraq to the withdrawal of American troops.

Prodigiously researched, The Endgame is not only based on an abundance of highly classified, still-secret government documents but is also brilliantly informed by access to key figures in the White House, the military, the State and Defense departments, the intelligence community, and, most strikingly, by extensive interviews with both Sunni and Shiite leaders, key Kurdish politicians, tribal sheikhs, former insurgents, Sadrists, and senior Iraqi military officers, whose insights about critical turning points and previously unknown decisions made during the war have heretofore been conspicuously missing from the media's coverage of it.

The Endgame is riveting as a blow-by-blow chronicle of the fighting. It is also relentlessly revealing, as it deftly pieces together the puzzle of the prosecution of American, Iraqi, and Iranian objectives, and the diplomatic intrigue and political struggle within Iraq since the American invasion.

 

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Desert Crossing
3
Politics of the Gun
19
Sovereignty with Limits
40
Vigilant Resolve
56
A Lost Cause?
74
Our Man in Baghdad
88
New Dawn
106
The Long Telegram
127
Phantom Thunder
389
The USS CENTCOM
410
General Petraeus Goes to Washington
429
No Plan B
449
Charge of the Knights
464
March Madness
484
Strange Justice
505
Lets Make a Deal
523

Papa Jaafari
142
The Red Team
158
The Year of Living Dangerously
180
Together Forward
204
The Perfect Storm
220
Out West
240
Double Down The Surge and Its Aftermath 20062008
265
Some Friendly Advice
267
Back to the Drawing Board
287
League of the Righteous
312
Petraeus Takes Command
329
The Enemy Within
351
The FormerInsurgent Counterinsurgency
369
The Home Stretch
542
Change at the Top
560
The Odd Couple
581
Trouble Up North
599
Crises of Confidence
614
Team of Rivals
628
The Numbers Game
651
Mission Accomplished
672
Epilogue
685
Acknowledgments
693
Index
767
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