When Reagan sent in the Marines : the invasion of Lebanon /

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who reported on the events as it happened, an action-packed account of Reagan's failures in the 1983 Marines barracks bombing in Beirut. On October 23, 1983, a truck bomb destroyed the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut. 241 Americans were killed in the wor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sloyan, Patrick J. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Thomas Dunne Books, [2019]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	United States. > Marine Corps > History > Arab-Israeli conflict. United Nations > Peacekeeping forces > Lebanon. United States Marine Compound Bombing, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983. Lebanon > History > Israeli intervention, 1982-1985. United States > Foreign relations > Lebanon. Lebanon > Foreign relations > United States. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. HISTORY / Middle East. HISTORY / Military / United States. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.

Table of Contents:

Prologue
Four inches
Legacy
A vain fantasy
Mole cricket
The siege
Turmoil
Going for broke
A path to glory - The party of God
Peace in a madhouse
Moment of truth
Burying the Marines
Path to Iran
End of an era
Epilogue.