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Title: The March Up : Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Ray L. Smith, Bing West ISBN: 0-553-80376-X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The First Good One
Comment: As the dust jacket states this book is really only the experience of the two authors as they traveled with the Marines during the campaign to Baghdad. The book does not give the reader an overall view of the war or probably even a good overall view of what the Marines accomplished. The authors do not give the reader the detail of say a Clancy or the overall talented writing of Ambrose, but they provide a gritty, hard nosed view of the combat that is exciting to read. You may thing, given the first few lines of this review, that I did not enjoy the book. The opposite is in fact true, I found the book every enjoyable and fast reading. It is a in a nicely detailed and written work that given you a good idea of what the average Marine went through during Operation Iraqi Freedom.
What an interesting, exciting and dangerous experience these two retired Marines share with the world. I was concerned that the authors would use the book as either an overly positive Marine recruiting piece or as so kind of back handed justification for the war, but they stayed away from these two areas. The book was just equal parts good old reporting and mature story telling that really gave the reader a wonderful insight to what the troops went through. There will be untold number of books about the war, there always is, but I bet that more often then not the March Up will be credited in the footnotes. This book will probably be one of few early attempts that stand the test of time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Non Political War Book
Comment: I read Bing West's sons books last week and was very impressed. An email exchange brought me here...and The March Up is the knockout punch. This is a sparse but powerful account of the recent war, told with a bias not to politics but to these marines. It's a series of stories wound around some large lessons. There are many names...but each story has gravity. West and the General don't pull punches either. They criticize some of the violence in the 'fog' of this war...but the book itself has a message that's clear: our young men are out dying for us each day. Thansk to Smith, West, and these fine men. Semper Fi!
Rating: 1
Summary: The Marines Didn't Take Baghdad
Comment: The 3rd Infantry Division did. The Marines couldn't find a bridge and the 3rd ID had already broken the back of the resistance with the "thunder runs". Just because the Marines toppled the statue, doesn't mean they should get the credit. Truman was right when he said the Marines have a better propoganda wing than Stalin. Other than that, I haven't read the book, but the title pisses me off.
Rakkasan!
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Title: Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq by Karl Zinsmeister ISBN: 0312326637 Publisher: Truman Talley Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad by David Zucchino, Mark Bowden ISBN: 0871139111 Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press Pub. Date: 11 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: In the Company of Soldiers : A Chronicle of Combat by Rick Atkinson ISBN: 0805075615 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Iraq War: A Military History by Williamson Murray, Robert H., Jr. Scales ISBN: 0674012801 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Ripples of Battle : How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think by VICTOR HANSON ISBN: 0385504004 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 16 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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