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 enlarge | Author: Michael Yon
Publisher: Richard Vigilante Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  109 reviews
Sales Rank: 5515
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0980076323
Dewey Decimal Number: 956
EAN: 9780980076325
ASIN: 0980076323
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Pulitzer Prize! This book is dead on! July 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Want to read war reporting that is not influenced by politically influenced editors or media? Buy this book! I am a slow reader and I finished it in less than a week! It was impossible to start a chapter and not finish it, only then to be stuck with the difficulty of resisting reading the next chapter. This is book compliments "Shadow Warriors" in a few ways while also telling its own story at the same time.
Forget the mainstream media--this is the straight story on Iraq July 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is probably the most important book written on the Iraq War. Michael Yon does an outstanding job of telling it like it is--no politics, no right or left, no spin, just the facts. He also reports the facts that the mainstream media usually deems unfit to print. Yon is critical about mistakes that were made, but at the same time shows that the Iraq War is in the process of being won. He credits the surge and a successful "community-policing" style of counterinsurgency strategy. The turnaround in events in Iraq is nothing short of spectacular. This book is easy to read, a page turner and will keep you on the edge of your seat. The stories and pictures Yon uses are especially powerful. Highly recommended. For those that support an immediate withdrawal of troops, this book will change your mind.
 Extremely well written, but a shortsighted view of the Iraq War July 23, 2008
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is an extremely exciting tour from the grunt's point of view. Since this point of view is often overlooked, it is nice to see it done so well.
HOWEVER, If you want to understand how we got into the war or who we are fighting now you will not get any idea from this book. It seems that MOST of our enemies are either Al Qaeda or Al Qaeda sympathizers. There is almost no discussion with any of our enemies, so what little information is provided about our enemies either says that they are fanatics or dismisses them as illevant. If there had been an index, you would see that there is exactly one reference to Moqtada al Sadr... (who was even cut from Yon's otherwise excellent coverage of the execution of Saddam!) and a few, minor references to Nouri Al Maliki. Considering this, it would seem that Yon expects the Americans to stay in Iraq forever, solving problems, eliminating insurgents, etc. There is no Iraqi political presence.
 At a price like this why bother with Kindle? July 22, 2008
0 out of 19 found this review helpful
The sample is great, and I plan to read this book (I have read quite a few others like it). But at $23.96 for a download!!!!!????? I'll wait for the price to come down, if it ever does, or buy a paper copy used.
Kindle Pricing? July 22, 2008
0 out of 8 found this review helpful
Why is the Kindle version of this book $4 higher than the current hardback price?
I would spend ten bucks to buy a version that I cannot share with others, but I won't spend more than what I would pay for a hardback.
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