Description: An authoritative military history of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Operation Iraqi Freedom, describing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the siege and fall of Baghdad, and the nation-building mission that followed.
Brief description: Dr. Heather Marie Stur is a professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi and a senior fellow in USM's Dale Center for the Study of War & Society. She is the author of three books: Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties (Cambridge, 2020), The U.S. Military and Civil Rights Since World War II (ABC-CLIO, 2019), and Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era (Cambridge, 2011). She is also co-editor of Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Since World War II (Johns Hopkins, 2017). Dr. Stur's articles and op-eds have been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the BBC, the National Interest, the Orange County Register, Diplomatic History, War & Society, and other journals and newspapers. In 2013-14, Dr. Stur was a Fulbright scholar in Vietnam, where she was a visiting professor in the International Relations department at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Ho Chi Minh City.
Review Quotes:
"Accompanied by a series of informative maps, 21 Days to Baghdad is an interesting perspective on the Iraq War." --Classic Military Vehicle
"a must-read for anyone wishing to learn how such trust enabled the 3rd Infantry Division's outstanding performance in Iraq." --ARMY magazine "those interested in General Buford Blount (ret), the 3rd ID, and the war in Iraq in general." --Armorama