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Chasing Ghosts
por Rieckhoff, Paul
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Brochura
- Condição
- Muito Bom
- ISBN 10
- 0451221214
- ISBN 13
- 9780451221216
- Livreiro
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Barberton, Ohio, United States
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: NAL Caliber, 2007. Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. Very nice clean Trade Paperback book. Failures and facades in.
Sinopse
The riveting, action-packed true story of the first soldier to challenge the war in Iraq.As a 1st Lieutenant and Infantry Platoon Leader for the U.S. Army, charged with leading 38 young men in Iraq, Paul Rieckhoff was proud to follow in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, who served during Vietnam and WWII respectively. He and his soldiers spent almost a year in one of the most dangerous and volatile areas of Baghdad. And what they encountered there was chaos: not nearly enough troops, no humanitarian aid, no body armor, no radios, and no real plan for what to do after Baghdad fell.Rieckhoff was shocked to see that sometimes the greatest challenges his platoon faced did not come from enemy combatants. He saw fi rsthand the disastrous results of disbanding the Iraqi army, sending thousands of armed, angry, and unemployed men out into the streets. And he saw what happened when we tried to conduct a war on the cheap, by bestowing government contracts to the lowest bidder and sending our military into battle inadequately protected and armed. What followed, over the next ten months, set him on a course that would forever change his life.When he fi nally came home from his tour of duty, Rieckhoff vowed to tell Americans the truth about what was going on in Iraq. He demanded accountability from elected officials and was the first Iraq veteran to do so publicly. He created Operation Truth, the first and largest veterans' group specifically for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Through this organization, he has become a leading spokesman for troops, veterans, and their families, and a critical voice in the ongoing debate surrounding this conflict.What is really happening in Iraq? Should we be there? Should we stay? Rieckhoff is in a unique position to answer these crucial questions. Not only was he on the ground in the heat of battle but he is also on the front lines politically at home. He provides a grunt's-eye view of the harrowing, bloody battles on the streets of Baghdad and a patriot's vision of where America has gone wrong and how it can reset its path.
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Snowball Bookshop
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- SA4497HI
- Título
- Chasing Ghosts
- Autor
- Rieckhoff, Paul
- Formato/Encadernação
- Brochura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- ISBN 10
- 0451221214
- ISBN 13
- 9780451221216
- Editorial
- NAL Caliber
- Local de publicação
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Data de publicação
- 2007
- Palavras-chave
- Iraq, Military, History
- Catálogos de livreiros
- History;
Termos da venda
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Sobre o Vendedor
Snowball Bookshop
Membro de Biblio desde 2004
Barberton, Ohio
Sobre Snowball Bookshop
A charming used bookstore in a renovated building in beautiful Downtown Barberton, OH. A general bookstore with over 1000,000 volumes of very nice condition hardcover and paperback books in all categories. Store hours are Mon-Fri 10-6, Sat 10-4.
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- Trade Paperback
- Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...
