The Gamble
General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
By Thomas E. Ricks; James Lurie (Read by)
(Penguin Audio, Compact Disc, Abridged, 9780143144106)
Publication Date: February 10, 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Paperback, Hardcover, Hardcover
Categories: Military - Iraq War (2003-), Military - United States
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Abridged CDs • 8 CDs, 10 hours
Fiasco, Thomas E. Ricks’s #1 New York Times bestseller, transformed the political dialogue on the war in Iraq—The Gamble is the next news-breaking installment.
Thomas E. Ricks is The Washington Post's senior Pentagon correspondent, where he has covered the U.S. military since 2000. Until the end of 1999, he held the same beat at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a reporter for seventeen years. A member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for national reporting, he has reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia, Haiti, Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Kuwait, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is the author of Making the Corps and A Soldier's Duty.











