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Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage)
by Rajiv Chandrasekaran  
Powells.com Staff Pick Not to be lost amid the many books on Iraq, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, former Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post, gives us a fascinating look at what life inside the Green Zone was like in the first year of post-Saddam Iraq. Here Chandrasekaran’s...
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Muqtada: Muqtada Al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq
by Patrick Cockburn Publisher Comments Time magazine listed him as one of its "100 People Who Shape Our World." Newsweek featured him on its cover under the headline "How Al-Sadr May Control U.S. Fate in Iraq." Paul Bremer denounced him as a "Bolshevik Islamist" and ordered that he be...
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Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation
by William R. Polk Publisher Comments Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into the foreseeable future says William R. Polk, former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council and professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of...
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Between Two Worlds (05 Edition)
by Salbi Publisher Comments Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying...
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The Triumph of the Martyrs: A Reporter's Journey Into Occupied Iraq
by Nir Rosen Publisher Comments ???He is one of the few Western journalists to get inside the Sunni insurgency, and his book contains a memorable portrait, among other things, of Fallujah under the chaotic rule of the mujahideen.??? ???The New York Review of Books???Represents brave...
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Speaking of Empire: Conversations with Tariq Ali
by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments Exiled from Pakistan in the 1960s for his activism against the military dictatorship, Tariq Ali has gained a reputation as one of the English-speaking world's most forceful political thinkers, speaking out consistently against imperialism, religious...
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Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It
by Mike (edt) Hoyt Publisher Comments andldquo;A searing document, one of the most revealing chronicles of the war yet published. It is as though correspondents are talking late into the night, trying to explain what it was like, what sights and smells haunt them, what theyandrsquo;re proud...
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Basrayatha: The Story of a City
by Muhammad Khudayyir Publisher Comments Fabulous and evocative portrait of the Iraqi city of Basra, the "Venice of the Middle East" Basrayatha is a literary tribute by author Muhammad Khudayyir to the city of his birth, Basra, on the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq. Just as a city's...
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No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent Into Chaos
by Charles Ferguson Publisher Comments The first book of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality, and anarchy, No End In Sight is a shocking story of wholesale incompetence, recklessness, and venality. Culled from over 200 hours of...
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Defeat: Why America and Britain Lost Iraq
by Jonathan Steele Publisher Comments As the dreadful reality of the coalition's defeat in Iraq begins to sink in, one question dominates Washington and London: Why? In this controversial new book, Jonathan Steele provides a stark and arresting answer: Bush and Blair were defeated from the...
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The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart Publisher Comments In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah,...
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Escape from Saddam: The Incredible True Story of One Man's Journey to Freedom
by Lewis Alsamari Publisher Comments At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation or imprisonment. Somehow Lewis made it through and...
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The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
by Ali A. Allawi Publisher Comments Involved for over thirty years in the politics of Iraq, Ali A. Allawi was a long-time opposition leader against the Baathist regime. In the post-Saddam years he has held important government positions and participated in crucial national decisions and...
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer
Publisher Comments The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq recounts how the United States set about changing the history of the Middle East and became ensnared in a guerrilla war in Iraq. It tells the story of the people and ideas that created the Bush administration's war...
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Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by Anthony Shadid
Publisher Comments Winner of the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize A Washington Post Book World Top Five Nonfiction Book of the Year A Seattle Times Top Ten Best Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book of the Year In 2003, The Washington Post's Anthony...
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Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco
by David L Phillips Publisher Comments Things didn't go wrong in postwar Iraq because the United States lacked a plan. Things went wrong because the United States was blinded by ideology and ignored planning that was already underway. Losing Iraq tells the story of the tragedy of Iraq, from...
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Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq
by Tariq Ali Publisher Comments The Assault And Capture of Iraq--And The Resistance it has provoked--will shape the politics of the twenty-first century. In this passionate and provocative book, Tariq Ali provides a history of Iraqi resistance against empires old and new, and argues...
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Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
by Larry Diamond Publisher Comments “Chilling—and often scathing—detail . . . Should be read by anyone interested in understanding why the United States’ quick military victory has given way to an increasingly virulent insurgency.”—The New York Times In...
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The Iraq War: A Military History
by Williamson Murray Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-297) and index....
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The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission
by Lawrence F Kaplan Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-146) and index....
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