{"product_id":"2940169436730","title":"No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"This is the face of war as only those who have fought it can describe it.\"-Senator John McCain\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFallujah: Iraq's most dangerous city unexpectedly emerged as the major battleground of the Iraqi insurgency. For twenty months, one American battalion after another tried to quell the violence, culminating in a bloody, full-scale assault. Victory came at a terrible price: 151 Americans and thousands of Iraqis were left dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe epic battle for Fallujah reveals the startling connections between policy and combat that are a part of the new reality of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Marines had planned to slip into Fallujah \"as soft as fog.\" But after four American contractors were brutally murdered, President Bush ordered an attack on the city-against the advice of the Marines. The assault sparked a political firestorm, and the Marines were forced to withdraw amid controversy and confusion-only to be ordered a second time to take a city that had become an inferno of hate and the lair of the archterrorist al-Zarqawi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on months spent with the battalions in Fallujah and hundreds of interviews at every level-senior policy makers, negotiators, generals, and soldiers and Marines on the front lines-\u003ci\u003eNo True Glory\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the bravery of the American soldier and a cautionary tale about the complex-and often costly-interconnected roles of policy, politics, and battle in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123125371120,"sku":"2940169436730","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169436730_p0.jpg?v=1763682686","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169436730","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}