An edition of In the Company of Soldiers (2004)

In the Company of Soldiers

A Chronicle of Combat

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An edition of In the Company of Soldiers (2004)

In the Company of Soldiers

A Chronicle of Combat

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  • 2 Have read

For soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division, the road to Baghdad began with a midnight flight out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in late February 2003. For Rick Atkinson, who would spend nearly two months covering the division for The Washington Post, the war in Iraq provided a unique opportunity to observe today's U.S. Army in combat. Now, in this extraordinary account of his odyssey with the 101st, Atkinson presents an intimate and revealing portrait of the soldiers who fight the expeditionary wars that have become the hallmark of our age. At the center of Atkinson's drama stands the compelling figure of Major General David H. Petraeus, described by one comrade as "the most competitive man on the planet." Atkinson spent virtually all day every day at Petraeus's elbow in Iraq, where he had an unobstructed view of the stresses, anxieties, and large joys of commanding 17,000 soldiers in combat. And all around Petraeus, we see the men and women of a storied division grapple with the challenges of waging war in an unspeakably harsh environment. With the eye of a master storyteller, a brilliant military historian puts us right on the battlefield. In the Company of Soldiers is a compelling, utterly fresh view of the modern American soldier in action. - Publisher.

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Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.
Language
English
Pages
336

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Cover of: In the company of soldiers
In the company of soldiers: a chronicle of combat
2005, Henry Holt, Owl Books
in English - 1st Owl Books ed.
Cover of: In the Company of Soldiers
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
March 15, 2004, Henry Holt and Co.
Hardcover in English - 1 edition
Cover of: In the Company of Soldiers
In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
July 9, 2004, Thorndike Press
Hardcover in English - 1 edition
Cover of: In the company of soldiers
In the company of soldiers: a chronicle of combat in Iraq
2004, H. Holt
Hardcover in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: In the Company of Soldiers
In the Company of Soldiers
May 6, 2004, Little, Brown
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First Sentence

"The road to Baghdad began in the Shoney's restaurant parking lot at the Hopkinsville, Kentucky, mall at 8 A.M. on Wednesday, February 26, 2003."

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Hardcover
Number of pages
336
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
Weight
1.4 pounds

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OL7933016M
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incompanyofsoldi00atki_0
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0805075615
ISBN 13
9780805075618
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17966
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1371203

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