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An on-the-ground commander describes his brigade's first year in Iraq after the U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency, in a firsthand analysis of success and failure in Iraq.

Iraq War, 2003-2011

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This book offers an overview of the Iraq War, with articles by leading scholars plus key primary source documents. It discusses the Bush administration's decision to invade Iraq, the U.S. troop surge in 2007, and the rise of the Islamic State. It offers insight through events, organizations, and people who had an impact on the conflict, plus inadvertent consequences, including worsening regional sectarian divisions, Arab Spring, expansion of international terrorism and more.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

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Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon's fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood's project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland's past and its present-destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes-in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.

Arabic fiction --- Arabic literature --- 2003-2011 --- Iraq

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""Greenwood's documentary and reference series of books contain background on many major political and cultural issues currently debated in the U.S. If all are as good as the one on the Iraq War edited by Thomas R. Mocktaitis, they have a winning series useful in most academic libraries."" - Reference Reviews

Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- History, Modern

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Two decades after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, a canon of American literature about the war has begun to emerge. Gregory Brazeal's The Hero and the Victim situates Iraq War fiction in war literature's broader history. In contrast to the emphasis of most pre-modern war literature on the figure of the warrior-as-hero, and the growing modern emphasis on the figure of the soldier-as-victim, Iraq War fiction reflects the troubled emergence of a new narrative: the story of the ordinary soldier as a wrongdoer or even criminal. To a greater extent than earlier literature about American wars, Iraq War fiction is haunted by depictions of moral injury and expressions of unresolved guilt. The emphasis on soldier criminality in Iraq War fiction can be partly explained by the rise of moral cosmopolitanism and its blurring of the traditional conceptual lines between war and crime. The anti-war literature of the twentieth century often presented fallen soldiers on both sides equally as victims and viewed the distinction between heroes and villains as part of the illusion that battlefield experience strips away. Written in the long shadow of Nuremberg, Iraq War fiction grapples with the possibility that the soldiers on one's own side may not be the heroes in the story, or even the victims, but participants in a wrong, and perhaps even complicit in crimes. The Hero and the Victim contributes to the ongoing, public reexamination of American traditions by confronting a topic that has, up to now, been largely untouched: the moral celebration of military service. The Hero and the Victim explores the theme of soldier criminality through close readings of several works by American authors, including Kevin Powers's The Yellow Birds, Phil Klay's Redeployment, Helen Benedict's Sand Queen, Chris Kyle's American Sniper, and Roy Scranton's War Porn. This volume will be an essential text for students of American literature, historians of war culture, and any scholar interested in representations of the Iraq War.

Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- War stories.