Tell me how this ends
Subtitle: General David Petraeus and the search for a way out of Iraq
By: Linda Robinson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9781586485283
Subjects: Petraeus, David Howell -- Interviews; Iraq War, 2003- -- Campaigns; Postwar reconstruction -- Iraq; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-; Iraq -- Politics and government -- 2003-
Genres: Interviews.
Description: After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war. On the ground in Iraq, with General Petraeus and his commanders, the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Masters of Chaos" reports on the endgame of this controversial war.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 2006 : a failing war, and the decision to surge; title: David Howell Petraeus; title: The Petraeus team launches; title: Fard al-qanoon, the Baghdad security plan; title: The political puzzle; title: The search for political reconciliation; title: The blue spaders into the inferno; title: Western Baghdad : the knights of Ameriya; title: The sons of Iraq; title: Full court press; title: The first reckoning; title: To the brink again; title: Tell me how this ends; title: Acknowledgments.