Boots on the Ground: A Month With the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq

Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.: St Martins Pr, 2003. New book, 213 pages. This is a rivetting account of the war in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division as it convoys north from Kuwait to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its bridges across the Euphrates. Karl Zinsmeister, a frontline reporter embedded with the 82nd, brilliantly conveys the careful planning and technical wizardry that go into today's warfare, even local firefights, and he brings to life the constant air-ground interactions that are the great innovation of modern precision combat.This is the true-life tale of superbly trained men in extraordinary circumstances, packed with concrete detail, often surpassing fiction for its sheer drama.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.