Table of Contents

Introduction/Deployment/Operation 'Anaconda'/Continuing Afghan operations/Iraq: deadlines and decapitation strikes/The drive northward - 3rd Infantry Division/Left Hook - the 101st Airborne Division/Baghdad/The ongoing mission/Bibliography/Appendices/Index

About the Author

Jonathan Bernstein is a full-time research historian for a major military museum in the US, specialising in the collection of oral histories from servicemen involved in the Vietnam War. Jim Laurier is a native of New Hampshire. He graduated with honours from the Paiers School of Art, Connecticut, in 1978, and has worked as a freelance illustrator ever since, completing assignments in a wide variety of fields. Jim has a keen interest in military subjects, both aviation and armour, and is a Fellow of the American Society of Aviation Artists, the New York Society of Illustrators and the American Fighter Aces Association.