Ambush Alley

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Tim Pritchard /2006-09-26 /Random House Publishing Group

AMBUSH ALLEY(ISBN=9780891418818) 英文原版

“Pritchard’s excellently reported narrative details thebloodiest American military operation of the U.S.-led invasion ofIraq, the fight for Nasiriyah. Impossible to put down, it is agripping account of SNAFUs, chaos, and heroism in a savage fightbetween U.S. Marines and Iraqi forces in the heart of a denselypopulated city, with several hundred thousand civilians caught inthe crossfire. Ambush Alley offers a disturbing view into thedown-and-dirty level of warfare which at the time was largelyhidden from the American public.” –Evan Wright, bestselling author of Generation Kill “Tim Pritchard writes about men in war like very few dare to try.By the tenth or so page into his book you are no longer simplyobserving the action from your couch potato ass, you are with theyoung Marines, riding along with them in the back of an AMTRAKtroop transport, sensing the ‘feel’ of combat,taking indiscriminate RPG rounds, and fired on by misdirected,fearsome A-10 ground attack jets. Ambush Alley truly takes you i

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Tim Pritchard 著 /2006-09-01 /Random House US