Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq
By Unknown Author.
Description
Includes 32 color photos taken by the author during the month he was embedded with the 82nd in Kuwait and Iraq.This is a riveting account of the war in Iraq moving north with the 82nd Airborne. Units of the 82nd depart Kuwait and convoy to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its intact bridges across the Euphrates. Boots on the Ground quickly becomes an action-filled microcosm of the new kinds of ultramodern war fighting showcased in the overall battle for Iraq. At the same time it remains specific to the daily travails of the s...
ISBN(s)
0312326637, 9780312326630
