Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq

"[A] splendid report from within the maelstrom of combat" that includes thirty-two photographs taken by the author while embedded with the 82nd in Kuwait and Iraq (George F. Will).

Boots on the Ground is a riveting account of the war in Iraq with the 82nd Airborne Division as it convoys north from Kuwait to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its nearby bridges across the Euphrates. Karl Zinsmeister, a frontline reporter who traveled ...