{"product_id":"9781555847647","title":"Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad","description":"\u003cb\u003e“A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter provides a brilliant account of the harrowing drive into Baghdad by an American armor brigade.” —\u003ci\u003eSeattle Post-Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Based on reporting that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, \u003ci\u003eThunder Run\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles one of the boldest gambles in modern military history: the surprise assault on Baghdad by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized). Three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of five million people—and in three days of bloody combat ended the Iraqi war.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e More than just a rendering of a single battle, \u003ci\u003eThunder Run\u003c\/i\u003e candidly recounts how soldiers respond under fire and stress and how human frailties are magnified in a war zone. The product of over a hundred interviews with commanders and men from the Second Brigade, it is a riveting firsthand account of how a single armored brigade was able to capture an Arab capital defended by one of the world’s largest armies.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “The best account of combat since \u003ci\u003eBlack Hawk Down\u003c\/i\u003e.” —\u003ci\u003eMen’s Journal\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132621242608,"sku":"9781555847647","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555847647_p0.jpg?v=1769899066","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555847647","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}