The Marines Take Anbar: The Four Year Fight Against Al Qaeda

by Richard H. Shultz Jr.

The U.S. Marine Corps' four-year campaign against al Qaeda in Anbar is a fight certain to take its place next to such legendary clashes as Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, Chosin, and Khe Sanh. Its success, the author contends, constituted a major turning point in the Iraq War and helped alter the course of events and set the stage for the Surge in Baghdad a year later. This book brings to light all the decisive details of how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1612511406
• ISBN13: 9781612511405
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"