March Up Taking Baghdad With the 1st Marine Division

Combining unprecedented author access with dramatic behind-the-scenes and frontline reporting, The March Up is the definitive, award-winning account of the twenty-two-day march on Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Here is the story as only those who accompanied the Marines in the field can tell it: the strategy, the politics, and the combat that resulted in a quick and decisive victory-but that was shadowed by second-guessing, unexpected reversals, and the ever-present threat of catastrophe. Here, too, for the first time ever in this edition, is a follow-up report after Bing West's return to Iraq.West, Bing is the author of 'March Up Taking Baghdad With the 1st Marine Division', published 2004 under ISBN 9780553382693 and ISBN 0553382691.