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Author Sloyan, Patrick J., author.

Title When Reagan sent in the Marines : the Invasion of Lebanon / Patrick J. Sloyan.

Publication Info. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2019.

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Location Call No. Status
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  956.9204 SLOYAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  956.9204 SLO    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 228 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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 worst terrorist attack our nation would suffer until 9/11. We're still feeling the repercussions today. When Reagan Sent In the Marines tells why the Marines were there, how their mission became confused and compromised, and how President Ronald Reagan used another misguided military venture to distract America from the attack and his many mistakes leading up to it. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Patrick J. Sloyan uses his own contemporaneous reporting, his close relationships with the Marines in Beirut, recently declassified documents, and interviews with key players, including Reagan's top advisers, to shine a new light on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and Reagan's doomed ceasefire in Beirut. Sloyan draws on interviews with key players to explore the actions of Kissinger and Haig, while revealing the courage of Marine Colonel Timothy Geraghty, who foresaw the disaster in Beirut, but whom Reagan would later blame for it. More than thirty-five years later, America continues to wrestle with Lebanon, the Marines with the legacy of the Beirut bombing, and all of us with the threat of Mideast terror that the attack furthered. When Reagan Sent In The Marines is about a historical moment, but one that remains all too present today"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject United States Marine Compound Bombing, Beirut, Lebanon, 1983.
Lebanon -- History -- Israeli intervention, 1982-1985.
United States. Marine Corps -- History -- Arab-Israeli conflict.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Lebanon.
Lebanon -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United Nations -- Peacekeeping forces -- Lebanon.
United Nations. (OCoLC)fst00530351
United States. Marine Corps. (OCoLC)fst00528845
Israeli Intervention in Lebanon (1982-1985) (OCoLC)fst01802315
United States Marine Compound Bombing (Beirut, Lebanon : 1983) (OCoLC)fst01161499
Diplomatic relations. (OCoLC)fst01907412
Peacekeeping forces. (OCoLC)fst01055909
Lebanon. (OCoLC)fst01206063
Lebanon -- Beirut. (OCoLC)fst01225260
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1982-1985
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781250113917 (hardcover)
9781250113924 (ebook)
1250113911
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