The Iraq War

 

The War in Iraq: From the Front Lines to the Home Front (24/7: Behind the Headlines) Paperback from Scholastic

War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007
Hardcover from Dept. of the Army
Listed under Military Medicine
 

The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq by Maj. Seth W.B. Folsom Paperback from Potomac Books Inc.

Ambush Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War by Tim Pritchard Mass Market Paperback from Presidio Press 2007- March 23, 2003: U.S. Marines from the Task Force Tarawa are caught up in one of the most unexpected battles of the Iraq War. What started off as a routine maneuver to secure two key bridges in the town of Nasiriyah in southern Iraq degenerated into a nightmarish twenty-four-hour urban clash in which eighteen young Marines lost their lives and more than thirty-five others were wounded. It was the single heaviest loss suffered by the U.S. military during the initial combat phase of the war. On that fateful day, Marines came across the burned-out remains of a U.S. Army convoy that had been ambushed by Saddam Hussein’s forces outside Nasiriyah. In an attempt to rescue the missing soldiers and seize the bridges before the Iraqis could destroy them, the Marines decided to advance their attack on the city by twenty-four hours. What happened next is a gripping and gruesome tale of military blunders, tragedy, and heroism. Huge M1 tanks leading the attack were rendered ineffective when they became mired in an open sewer. Then a company of Marines took a wrong turn and ended up on a deadly stretch of road where their armored personal carriers were hit by devastating rocket-propelled grenade fire. USAF planes called in for fire support play their own part in the unfolding cataclysm when they accidentally strafed the vehicles. The attempt to rescue the dead and dying stranded in “ambush alley” only drew more Marines into the slaughter. This was not a battle of modern technology, but a brutal close-quarter urban knife fight that tested the Marines’ resolve and training to the limit. At the heart of the drama were the fifty or so young Marines, most of whom had never been to war, who were embroiled in a battle of epic proportions from which neither their commanders nor the technological might of the U.S. military could save them. With a novelist’s gift for pace and tension, Tim Pritchard brilliantly captures the chaos, panic, and courage of the fight for Nasiriyah, bringing back in full force the day that a perfunctory task turned into a battle for survival.

The Iraq War: The Military Offensive, from Victory in 21 Days to the Insurgent Aftermath by John Keegan Paperback from Vintage -

My War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell Paperback from Berkley Trade

Blood Stripes: The Grunt's View of the War in Iraq by David Danelo Paperback from Stackpole Books 2007-

Balance Sheet: The Iraq War and U.S. National Security (Stanford Security Studies) by John Duffield, Peter Dombrowski Hardcover from Stanford Security Studies 2009-

Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff, David Corn Hardcover from Crown -

The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 (Essential Histories) by Efraim Karsh Paperback from Osprey Publishing -

War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars by Richard N. Haass Hardcover from Simon & Schuster

The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq by Helen Benedict Paperback from Beacon Press

Ronin: A Marine Scout/Sniper Platoon in Iraq by Mike Tucker Hardcover from Stackpole Books

From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava by Jay Kopelman, Melinda Roth Paperback from The Lyons Press

The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace by Dr. Ali A. Allawi Paperback from Yale University Press

The First Iraq War--1914-1918: Britain's Mesopotamian Campaign by A. J. Barker Paperback from Enigma Books

Once a Marine: An Iraq War Tank Commander's Inspirational Memoir of Combat, Courage, and Recovery by Nick Popaditch, Mike Steere Hardcover from Savas Beatie

The Iraq War: Origins and Consequences by James DeFronzo Paperback from Westview Press

The Iraq War: A Military History by Williamson Murray, Robert H. Scales Jr. Paperback from Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

Case Against War: The Essential Legal Inquiries, Opinions & Judgments Concerning War in Iraq by Rabinder Singh, Janet Kentridge, Julian Knowles, Colin Warwick, Charlotte Kilroy Paperback from Spokesman Books

 

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