The End of Major Combat Operations

By Nick McDonell

Book Overview

Novelist and Time correspondent Nick McDonell brings this stunning account back from the latest iteration of the War in Iraq?an engrossing, ground-level report on the conflict still unfolding under its second commander-in-chief. Traveling to Baghdad and then to Mosul with the 1st Cavalry Division, McDonell offers an unforgettable look at the way things stand now?at the translators stranded in a country that doesn't look kindly on their cooperation, at the infantrymen struggling to make something out of the soft counterinsurgency missions they call chai-ops, at the commanders inured to American journalists and Iraqi officials both?and what the so-called ?end of major combat operations" means for where they're going.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1934781967
• ISBN13: 9781934781968
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Truly Unique and Moving

Absolutely incredible read. "The End of Major Combat Operations" came as 1/2 of McSweeny's 34, but will also be sold separately. In a time where we seem inundated with the same impersonal stories about the two wars we're fighting, this book delivers a truly personal and conflicted account of life in Iraq as a solider, as a citizen and as a reporter. Without a doubt, the best war read I've come across so far.