Battle ready

Resource Information

The work Battle ready represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Battle ready

Statement of responsibility

Tom Clancy ; with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz

Creator

• Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013

Contributor

• Koltz, Tony
• Zinni, Anthony C.

Author

• Clancy, Tom, 1947-2013
• Koltz, Tony
• Zinni, Anthony C.

Subject

• United States, Marine Corps
• United States, Marine Corps -- Biography
• Zinni, Anthony C
• Generals -- United States -- Biography
• Large type books
• United States -- History, Military -- 21st century
• United States -- History, Military -- 20th century

Genre

• Biography
• Large type books

Language

eng

Summary

In his first three Commanders books, Tom Clancy teamed with Generals Fred Franks, Jr., Chuck Horner, and Carl Stiner to provide masterful blends of history, biography, you-are-there narrative, insight into the practice of leadership, and plain, old-fashioned storytelling. Battle Ready is all of that--and it is also something more. Marine General Tony Zinni was known as the "Warrior Diplomat" during his nearly forty years of service. As a soldier, his credentials were impeccable, whether leading troops in Vietnam, commanding hair-raising rescue operations in Somalia, or as Commander in Chief of CENTCOM directing strikes against Iraq and Al Qaeda. But it was as a peacemaker that he made just as great a mark, conducting dangerous troubleshooting missions all over Africa, Asia, and Europe; and then serving as Secretary of State Colin Powell's special envoy to the Middle East, before disagreements over the 2003 Iraq War and its probable aftermath caused him to resign. Battle Ready follows the evolution of both General Zinni and the Marine Corps, from the cauldron of Vietnam through the operational revolution of the seventies and eighties, to the new realities of the post-Cold War, post-9/11 military, a military with a radically different job and radically different tools for accomplishing it. It is an eye-opening book, a front-row seat to a man, an institution, and a way of both war and peace that together make this an instant classic of military history.--Publisher description

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 359.9/6/092
• B

Index

index present

Interest level

UG

LC call number

VE25.Z56

LC item number

C47 2004

Literary form

non fiction

Reading level

9.7

Study program name

Accelerated Reader AR