Thomas Ricks: 'The Gamble: General Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008'
Ricks uses hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with top officers in Iraq and on-the-ground reporting to document the inside story of the Iraq War since late 2005. Ricks is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, "Fiasco," and a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and senior Pentagon correspondent for the Washington Post.