Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005

Thomas E. Ricks

Penguin Group US, Jul 25, 2006 - History - 512 pages

Coming from The Penguin Press in February 2009, Thomas E. Ricks's The Gamble

Thomas E. Ricks 's #1 New York Times bestseller, Fiasco, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq. Now Ricks has picked up where Fiasco left off-Iraq, late 2005. With more newsbreaking information, including hundreds of hours of interviews with top U.S. officials who were on the ground during the surge and beyond, The Gamble is the natural companion piece to Fiasco, and the two are sure to become the definitive examinations of what ultimately went wrong in Iraq.

About the author

Thomas E. Ricks is "The Washington Post's" senior Pentagon correspondent. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq" and "A Soldier's Duty".

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005
• Author: Thomas E. Ricks
• Publisher: Penguin Group US, 2006
• ISBN: 1101201401, 9781101201404
• Length: 512 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / United States