In one of the boldest gambles in modern military history, just three battalions and fewer than a thousand men launched a violent thrust of tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles into the heart of a city of 5 million people and, in three bloody days of combat, ended the Iraqi war. [This book offers] the story of the surprise assault on Baghdad - one of the most decisive battles in American combat history - by the Spartan Brigade, the Second Brigade of the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized).-Dust jacket.

Foreword / Mark Bowden -- Charlie one two -- The right thing -- Double tap -- Puppy love -- The plan -- A covert breach -- The palace gates -- Suicide at the gates of Baghdad -- The party is above all -- God will burn their bodies in hell -- Going amber -- Curly -- Big time -- Catfish -- Moe, Larry -- Playing the game -- Counterattack -- The bridge.