![A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/852/236/9780451236852.RH.0.l.jpg)
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq Paperback - 2012
by Doyle, William
- Used
- Paperback
Drop Ship Order
Description
New
NZ$23.66
NZ$6.64
Shipping to USA
Standard delivery: 4 to 14 days
More Shipping Options
Standard delivery: 4 to 14 days
Ships from Mediaoutletdeal1 (Virginia, United States)
Details
- Title A Soldier's Dream: Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq
- Author Doyle, William
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Dutton Caliber
- Date 2012-06-05
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0451236858_used
- ISBN 9780451236852 / 0451236858
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.03 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
-
Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Dewey Decimal Code B
About Mediaoutletdeal1 Virginia, United States
Biblio member since 2014
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
Summary
For six months in 2006, a charismatic young U.S. Army captain and Arab linguist named Travis Patriquin unleashed a diplomatic and cultural charm offensive upon the Sunni Arab sheiks of Anbar province, the heart of darkness of the Iraqi insurgency. He galvanized American support for the “Sunni Awakening,” the tribal revolt against Al Qaeda that spread through the province and eventually across Iraq, a turning point that led to dramatically lower levels of violence in the country.
The Awakening may not have succeeded without Patriquin, who was so beloved by Iraqis that they adopted him into their tribes and loved him as a brother. This is the true story of a man who loved Iraq, and a soldier who helped engineer the turning point of the Iraq War.
It is the story of America’s T.E. Lawrence—Travis Patriquin.