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A Soldier's Dream : Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq
by William Doyle
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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.
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- A Soldier's Dream : Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq
- Author
- William Doyle
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- Hardcover
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- Used - Good
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- ISBN 10
- 0451230000
- ISBN 13
- 9780451230003
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
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