The Endgame: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack ObamaPantheon 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. |
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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 |
767 | |