“…an intriguing account of the two major campaigns to drive the terrorists out of the city.” From the Back Cover Buhl, and his skill in telling a story that reads less like a history than a thrilling novel… I especially liked his treatment of some of the nation’s most brilliant combat leaders, including Marine General James N. This technique keeps his work close to what matters most in getting to the truth of a battle: write of the strategy and of the men who execute it….Camp writes of war’s men and methodology as only one who has been there can. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and aptly avoids commenting on the war’s domestic political controversy. Paul Bremer, Iraq Coalition Force Commander, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, and U.S. Midwest Book ReviewĬamp sets the battles’ political stage very well, describing the tensions among U.S. Code-named Operation Phantom Fury, this offensive turned out to be lethal urban combat - and its history and processes are chartered here in Operation Phantom Fury: The Assault and Capture of Fallujah, Iraq, for any military library strong in modern combat. In November 2004 a joint US-Iraqi force of thousands moved against insurgents in Fallujah to eliminate some of the area's most 'hardcore' insurgents and restore peace. He chooses exposition of eloquence, relying on participants’ voices to bring drama and description. Operation Phantom Fury chronologically documents the on-the-ground events leading to the 20 military operations in Fallujah, Iraq, and makes clear that the operations relied on a team-soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Iraqi troops. For this contemporary history, Camp conducted interviews and review oral histories-and made us of the bibliography. And the information is worth the weight.Įxperienced author Dick Camp, a retired Marine colonel and Vietnam veteran, is vice president at the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation and its National Museum of the Marine Corps. Because of the high-quality paper suitable for printing more than 150 color photographs plus mps, Operation Phantom Fury weighs about 2 pounds. The book is exquisite to hold in your hands beautifully bound, it contains more than 150 color photos set on high-quality manuscript paper.” - Leatherneck Magazine “Marine master historian and author Dick Camp has written the definitive account of the two major battles for the city of Fallujah and a “spot-on” historical account of one of our Marines’ hardest fights since the Vietnam-era ended. Operation Phantom Fury is in the top tier of books about Marines at war.” - Eric Hammel, author of Marines in Hue City and The Root: The Marines in Beruit “When Dick Camp writes about Marines, he does so from the heart. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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