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Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
Mark R. Depue
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Description for Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
Hardcover. For the 160 national guardsmen from America's heartland, Baghdad was more than just a long way from home. It also confronted the 233rd Military Police Company with America's most difficult challenge in Iraq. This work features the horrors of firefights and summary executions and the drama of the UN bombing. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, 34 photographs, 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; BTM; HBJF1; HBLX; HBW; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 626.
For the 160 national guardsmen from America's heartland, Baghdad was more than just a long way from home. It also confronted the 233rd Military Police Company with America's most difficult challenge in Iraq: establishing security in a nation rife with religious, tribal, and sectarian conflict and violence. The first MP company assigned to patrol the heart of Baghdad, the 233rd (from Springfield, Illinois) was a key part of the American occupation forces from April 2003 to April 2004. Charged with helping rebuild the city's police force - not just reopening stations but training a new force to replace its corrupt ... Read more
For the 160 national guardsmen from America's heartland, Baghdad was more than just a long way from home. It also confronted the 233rd Military Police Company with America's most difficult challenge in Iraq: establishing security in a nation rife with religious, tribal, and sectarian conflict and violence. The first MP company assigned to patrol the heart of Baghdad, the 233rd (from Springfield, Illinois) was a key part of the American occupation forces from April 2003 to April 2004. Charged with helping rebuild the city's police force - not just reopening stations but training a new force to replace its corrupt ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700614981
SKU
V9780700614981
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About Mark R. Depue
Mark R. DePue served five years in the U.S. Army and twenty in the Illinois Army National Guard, retiring in 2001 as a lieutenant colonel. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Iowa in 2004 and is currently director of oral history at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Illinois.
Reviews for Patrolling Baghdad: A Military Police Company and the War in Iraq (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
This is the best unit memoir to come out of the Iraq War to date and is sure to become a military classic. It deserves the widest possible readership. Michael D. Doubler, author of Civilian in Peace, Soldier in War: The Army National Guard ""DePue vividly captures the experiences of America's citizen-soldiers at war. One can almost taste the dust ... Read more