Thunder Run: The Armored Strike To Capture Baghdad
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Author: David Zucchino
First Edition
Atlantic Monthly Press
©2004 David Zucchino
CAB Comment––WOW! I could not put this amazing book down. “Thunder Run” is truly terrifying in it’s detailed account of the grim and grisly armored strike to capture Bagdad during the Iraq War. This is real-life horror, and I could not look away. In fact, I read this entire book as I worked on the Special FX for my short film “Human No More”. These SFX required endless experimentation, but also what felt like infinite rendering time simply to review the SFX and then make an adjustment and render again. Reading “Thunder Run” kept me going and kept me awake.
“Thunder Run: The Armored Strike To Capture Baghdad”––Publishers Weekly Review:
“Even a very short, victorious shooting war against a disorganized, dispirited, vastly outnumbered and under-equipped enemy is hell. That is the central message that Los Angeles Times correspondent Zucchino brings home startlingly well in this riveting account of the American military's lightning capture of Baghdad in April 2003. Zucchino (The Myth of the Welfare Queen ) is an experienced, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter, and he shows off his reportorial skills in this reconstruction of the "lightning armored strike" in Iraq that the military refers to as a "thunder run." The narrative focuses on the men who commanded and battled in the tank battles as the Americans fought their way to Iraq's capital city. It is often not a pretty picture, nor one for the faint of heart, because Zucchino unhesitatingly and graphically describes the violent and grisly fates that befell hundreds, if not thousands, of Iraqi Republican Guard troops and fedayeen militiamen, their Syrian allies (at the border) and the unfortunate civilians who were killed or wounded by the deadly high-tech American armored vehicles and their well-trained crews. He also does not shy away from intimately describing the deaths and injuries of American troops. The Americans who fought their way into Baghdad engaged in, according to Zucchino's account, a vicious, if short-lived, war. While the Americans overwhelmed the Iraqis on the road to Baghdad, U.S. troops faced periodic stiff resistance; rocket-propelled grenades caused death and destruction among the crews in the Bradley fighting vehicles. Zucchino tells his story primarily from the American troops' point of view, but does include a section describing the experiences of a Baath Party militia leader and some Republican Guard officers in this high-quality example of in-depth and evocative war reporting.”
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