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  Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

  by Thomas E. Ricks

  The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post senior Pentagon correspondant Thomas E. Ricks's Fiasco is masterful and explosive reckoning with the planning and execution of the... (more)
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  Iraq Through A Bullet Hole: A Civilian Returns Home

  by Jeremy Todd

  My true-life book, covers extreme childhood abuses including mental, emotional, physical and sexual maltreatments. At the age of six, my father sold me as a prostitute; this ended six years later in an act of murder. The material is presented as a case study. Therefore, I detail every single incident using explicit language. This work is rare because I survived to tell the story. Readers of Little Boy Broken... (more)
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  Halliburton's Army: How a Well-Connected Texas Oil Company Revolutionized the Way America Makes War

  by Pratap Chatterjee

  Halliburton’s Army is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq—without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation—to its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton’s Army is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and... (more)
• Zainab of IraqRajan Bajpai

  

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  Zainab of Iraq

  by Rajan Bajpai

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  Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq

  by Jo Tatchell

  In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba'ath Party's Secret Police and declared an “enemy of the state,” he faced certain death if he stayed. Nabeel had grown up in the late 1950s and early '60s in a large... (more)
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  Saddam Hussein Menghalau Tantangan

  by Dasman Djamaluddin

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  Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

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  Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq

  by Michael R. Gordon

  Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal after–action reports, Cobra II is the definitive chronicle of America’s invasion and occupation of Iraq—a conflict that could not be lost but one that the United States failed to win decisively. From the Pentagon to the White House to the American command centers in the... (more)
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  The Fist of God

  by Frederick Forsyth

  From the bestselling author of The Day of the Jackal , international master of intrigue Frederick Forsyth, comes a thriller that brilliantly blends fact with fiction for one of this summer's--or any season's--most explosive reads! From the behind-the-scenes decision-making of the Allies to the secret meetings of Saddam Hussein's war cabinet, from the brave American fliers running their dangerous missions over... (more)
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  The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America

  by Stephen F. Hayes

  In the wake of 9/11 no one knew when the next attack would come, or where it would come from. America's enemies seemed gathered on all sides, and for several nerve-racking months, we lived in fear that the perpetrators might be plotting another action or, worse, that our most dangerous enemies -- al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's murderous regime in Iraq -- could be banding together against us. The Bush... (more)
• Shell Game: A True Story of Banking, Spies, Lies, Politics-And the Arming of Saddam HusseinPeter Mantius

  

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  Shell Game: A True Story of Banking, Spies, Lies, Politics-And the Arming of Saddam Hussein

  by Peter Mantius

  A true-life thriller focuses on an Atlanta bank that loaned billions to Iraq during the 1980s--money Iraq used to buy arms, develop weapons, destroy Iran, take over Kuwait, bomb Israel, and kill Americans in the Gulf War.
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  The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq

  by Patrick Cockburn

  A profound and personal journey to the heart of a shattered nation. In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. In The Occupation , Cockburn describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the failure of the US occupation, the springs of the resistance and how it turned into a full... (more)
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  My Father's Rifle: A Childhood in Kurdistan

  by Hiner Saleem

  A young Kurd comes of age in a war-torn land. This beautiful, spare narrative tells of the life of a boy named Azad--in fact the author, a Kurdish filmmaker--as he grows to manhood in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is proud of its Kurdish past and hopes for a free Kurdish future. He loves his mother's orchard, his cousin's stunt pigeons, his... (more)
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  Hogs in the Shadows: Combat Stories from Marine Snipers in Iraq

  by Milo S. Afong

  They have one mission-and they accomplish it with one bullet... In Operation Iraqi Freedom, there is a special breed of hunter for whom the prey is the enemy- and every day is hunting season. This soldier is a HOG-a Hunter of Gunman. These stories give firsthand accounts of just how dangerous Iraq can be, the experience of these young men, and the consequences involved with being on a Marine Scout/Sniper team... (more)
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  Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq

  by Farnaz Fassihi

  Since 2003, Iraq’s bloody legacy has been well-documented by journalists, historians, politicians, and others confounded by how Americans were seduced into the war. Yet almost no one has spoken at length to the constituency that represents Iraq’s last best hope for a stable country: its ordinary working and middle class. Farnaz Fassihi, The Wall Street Journal ’s intrepid senior Middle East correspondent,... (more)