New York, NY: Regan Books (2004)

First Edition. Signed.

Fine in dust jacket.

To America, he was a hero.

To his troops, he was a soldier.

Now hear his story.

The Commander in Chief of the United States Central Command from July 2000 through July 2003, General Tommy Franks, made history by leading American and Coalition forces to victory in Afghanistan and Iraq-the decisive battles that launched the war on terror. In American Soldier, General Franks retraces his journey from a small-town boyhood through a lifetime of heroic military service, and offers the first true insider’s account of the war on terrorism in the weeks following 9/11.

Franks traces his relationship with the demanding Donald Rumsfeld, describes the covert diplomacy that helped him secure international cooperation for the war, speaks frankly of intelligence shortcomings and credible WMD threats, offers an unvarnished portrait of the “disruptive and divisive” Washington bureaucracy, and draws a candid assessment of the war’s aftermath. Yet in the end, American Solder demonstrates that the battles in Afghanistan and Iraq remain heroic victories-wars of liberation won by troops whose valor was “unequalled,” Franks writes, “by anything in the annals of war.”