Thunder Run: Three Days in the Battle for Baghdad
David Zucchino, "Thunder Run: Three Days in the Battle for Baghdad"
ISBN: 1843542838 | 2005 | EPUB | 336 pages | 1 MB
Thunder Run is the inside story of one of the most brutal and decisive battles in combat history. It is the story of how, with fewer than a thousand men, and facing dugin Iraqi forces, the Second ('Tusker') Brigade of the Third Infantry Division punched a hole through the heart of Baghdad with a high-speed charge to Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palace and Republican Guard headquarters. It is a riveting account of how soldiers really respond under fire - and how human fralities are magnified in a war zone. Many people believe that Baghdad was taken with a minimum of effort. But for the Tusker Brigade this was a cruel and terrifying three days of urban warfare. This compulsively readable book, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino, does for the battle for Baghdad what mark Bowden's best-selling Black Hawk Down did for the firefight in Mogadishu. It is an unforgettable and unputdownable first hand account of how a single armoured brigade of fewer than a thousand men captured an Arab capital defended by one of the world's largest armies.