Iraq War

Revised Edition

AvRodney P. Carlisle,John S. Bowman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Del i serien America at War

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Beskrivning

In a dramatic three-week campaign beginning March 20, 2003, U.S. and British forces, along with several other countries in a coalition, destroyed the Iraqi army, defeating Saddam Hussein's oppressive regime. Over the coming months and years, former regime members, along with some armed anti-American forces from outside Iraq, started a long and bitter armed resistance.Iraq War, Revised Edition covers all the background material necessary to understand the circumstances surrounding this particular military undertaking. An important and timely resource for middle and high school readers, this new edition explores the history of the region as well as the recent events leading up to and culminating in this war.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-09-30
Mått:165 x 236 x 17 mm
Vikt:500 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:America at War
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Chelsea House Publishers
ISBN:9780816081912

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Rodney P. Carlisle earned a B.A. (cum laude) in history from Harvard and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is a former chair of the history department at Rutgers University, Camden, USA, where he taught for more than 30 years, specializing in 20th-century history, in particular military history. Carlisle is now professor emeritus there. He has written many articles and more than 30 books on history, including Facts On File's Encyclopedia of the Atomic Age and Iraq War and Afghanistan War in Chelsea House's America at War set. His most recent work is Sovereignty at Sea: U.S. Merchant Ships and American Entry into World War I.