Tell Me How This Ends

After a series of disastrous missteps in its conduct of the war, the White House in 2006 appointed General David Petraeus as the Commanding General of the coalition forces. Tell Me How This Ends is an inside account of his attempt to turn around a failing war.
Linda Robinson conducted extensive interviews with Petraeus and his subordinate commanders and spent weeks with key U.S. and Iraqi divisions. The result is the only book that ties together military operations in Iraq and the internecine political drama that is at the heart of the civil war.
Replete with dramatic battles, behind-doors confrontations, and astute analysis, the book tells the full story of the Iraq War's endgame, and lays out the options that will be facing the next president when he or she takes office in January 2009.

Linda Robinson is senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she is writing a book about women leaders and the fight for democracy. She is author of Tell Me How This Ends, an account of theIraq War that was a Foreign Affairs bestseller and a New York Times Notable Book, and One Hundred Victories, an inside account of village-level stability operations and counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. Robinson received the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Reporting on National Defense in 2005.