On the Thunder Run
Ed Harriman: What Happened at al-Hilla, 1 April 2004
A Time of Our Choosing: America’s War in Iraq
by Todd Purdom.
Times, 319 pp., $25, November 2003,0 8050 7562 3 Show More
by Todd Purdom.
Times, 319 pp., $25, November 2003,
“... 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division on 5 April, now known in the US as the ‘Thunder Run’. Todd Purdom, a New York Times journalist, described it in the paper’s book about the war, in breathy, histrionic tones: ‘It began at dawn. Like a convoy of armour-plated dinosaurs come suddenly to life, the column of 70-ton Abrams tanks and 25-ton ... ”
