Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way Out of Iraq

After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war.

Linda Robinson conducted extensive interviews with Petraeus and his subordinate commanders and spent weeks with key U.S. and Iraqi divisions. The result is the only book that ties together military operations in Iraq and the internecine political drama that is at the heart of the civil war.

Replete with dramatic battles, behind-doors confrontations, and astute analysis, the book tells the full story of the Iraq War's endgame, and lays out the options that will be facing the next president when he or she takes office in January 2009.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 09/14/2009
ISBN: 9781586487669
Pages: 410
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 1.20d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/08/2009 pg. 36
New York Times Book Review 09/27/2012 pg. 59