Maps -- Prologue Baghdad, February 11, 2007 -- A war almost lost -- Designing the surge -- Fardh Al-Qanoon -- Tower 57 -- The awakening -- Turning the tide -- Testimony -- Power politics -- Charge of the knights -- The surge in retrospect -- Appendix 1: Report to Congress on the situation in Iraq -- Appendix 2: Multi-national force -- Iraq commander's counterinsurgency guidance -- Appendix 3: Anaconda strategy versus Al-Qaeda in Iraq -- Appendix 4: Security incidents in Iraq.