A Chance in Hell: The Men Who Triumphed Over Iraq's Deadliest City and Turned the Tide of War
"Michaels...deftly explains how the so-called Anbar Awakening emerged from this seemingly hopeless set of circumstances...."-- The Wall Street Journal"Michaels shows that ideas can win wars or lose them, often by the narrowest of margins."-- Ken Allard in New York Journal of Books"Many of the events in the book...will captivate readers...."-- Army Times"A Chance in Hell is one of the most important books written thus far on Army operations in Iraq."-- Lou DiMarco in the blog, A Horse Soldier's Thoughts"It is one helluve story that has been told brilliantly by Jim Michaels."--Jim Lehrer, author and anchor of PBS Newshour“Anbar province was the place where the Iraq war began to turn around, and in this book Jim Michaels captures that time and place. He also brings to this story a fine feel for how the U.S. military thinks and operates.”--Thomas E. Ricks, bestselling author ofFiascoandThe Gamble, and of ForeignPolicy.com’s “Best Defense” blog