The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson

The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson

For every great historical event, at least one reporter writes an eye-opening account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds - George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's Hiroshima and the dropping of the first atomic bomb; Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families and the Rwandan genocide. Whatever else is written about the Iraqi people and the fall of Saddam, Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad will remain the classic book about the Iraq War. No subject has become more hotly politicized than the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, and so a thick fog of propaganda has obscured the reality of what the Iraqi people have endured and are enduring, under Saddam Hussein and now. Jon Lee Anderson has created an astonishing portrait of humanity in extremis, a work of great wisdom, human empathy, and moral clarity. In channelling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in the whirlwind of history, Jon Lee Anderson has written a book of timeless significance.

'THE FALL OF BAGHDAD demonstrates -- like Anderson's incisive books on the war in Afghanistan, contemporary guerrilla movements and Che Guevara -- his knack for interviews, observations and finely crafted, powerful narrativesThe great value of this book is that Anderson takes us beyond sound bites or official statements to hear the authentic voices of thoughtful, educated Iraqi civilians in interviews and vignettes that capture the chaos of wartime and its aftermath ... The haunting intenstisy of Anderson's vibrant account of his experiences is reminiscent of the best war literature ... indispensable for understanding what is going on inside Iraqi society today' WASHINGTON POST

Jon Lee Anderson is the author of Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World, Che Guevara: A revolutionary Life, The Lion's Grave: Dispatched from Afghanistan, and, with his brother Scott Anderson, War Zones and Inside the League. A regular contributor to The New Yorker, he lives in Dorset, England, with his wife and three children.

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ISBN 13	9780316729901
ISBN 10	0316729906
Titel	The Fall of Baghdad
Autor	Jon Lee Anderson
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	Little, Brown & Company
Erscheinungsjahr	2005-02-03
Seitenanzahl	400
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