The Fall of Baghdad
by Jon Lee Anderson
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Examines the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, following a diverse group of Iraqis from a life of fear under Saddam's rule, through the events of the invasion and the regime's fall, to America's seizure of power and its repercussions.Tags
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I started Fall of Baghdad immediately after finishing Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap. In Achilles Trap, Coll disentangles the relationship between Saddam Hussein and the 4 United States administrations he interacted with from his rise to power in the late 1970's through his capture by US forces in 2003.
Fall of Baghdad was a perfect follow up, because it took me from a thousand foot view down onto the streets of Baghdad leading up to and throughout the collapse of Sadddam's regime. Anderson does an excellent job of providing readers with a glimpse into the perspective of many different Iraqis living in Baghdad during the invasion.
This was a painful read. Both during Saddam's reign and throughout the invasion, those bearing the brunt of show more suffering were Iraqi civilians. In America we're taught that we liberated Iraq, unfortunately the truth is far messier: by removing the existing power structure, Saddam, without having a viable replacement, we sent Iraq into a rapid spiral of chaos. show less
Fall of Baghdad was a perfect follow up, because it took me from a thousand foot view down onto the streets of Baghdad leading up to and throughout the collapse of Sadddam's regime. Anderson does an excellent job of providing readers with a glimpse into the perspective of many different Iraqis living in Baghdad during the invasion.
This was a painful read. Both during Saddam's reign and throughout the invasion, those bearing the brunt of show more suffering were Iraqi civilians. In America we're taught that we liberated Iraq, unfortunately the truth is far messier: by removing the existing power structure, Saddam, without having a viable replacement, we sent Iraq into a rapid spiral of chaos. show less
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Jon Lee Anderson (born January 15, 1957) is a biographer, author, international investigative reporter, and staff writer for The New Yorker, reporting from war zone locales such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Israel, El Salvador, Ireland, Lebanon, Iran, and throughout the Middle East. Anderson has also written for The New York Times, Harper's, show more Life, and The Nation. Anderson is renowned for his numerous profiles of political leaders, including Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and Augusto Pinochet. Anderson is also the author of the best-selling and definitive 800 + page biography of the iconic Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara. Entitled Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, it was first published in 1997. While researching the book in Bolivia, he discovered the hidden location of Guevara's burial from where his skeletal remains were exhumed in 1997 and returned to Cuba. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Fall of Baghdad
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- Bagdad, Irak
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- Anglés
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