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Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2003 to 2005

Thomas E. Ricks

"Drawing on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American military personnel, including more than one hundred senior officers, and access to more than thirty thousand pages of official documents, many of them never before made public, Thomas E. Ricks has written the definitive account of the American military's tragic experience in Iraq."--BOOK JACKET.

HistoryHistory · medium confidenceHistory31 signalsGoogle Books: History -> HistoryKeyword Classifier: American History -> American HistoryAward Category: Arthur Ross Book Award: International Affairs -> Arts & CriticismWar & Military StrategyMiddle East & North AfricaRegional & Local History

Award History

1 wins · 4 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Hillman Prize for Book Journalism2007WinnerOfficial source
Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionMajor2007FinalistSecondary source
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction2007FinalistSecondary source
Arthur Ross Book Award: International Affairs2007Honorable mentionSecondary source
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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    • Iraq90%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    30 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 62%.