Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780786169740 (0786169745)
Publish date: January 1st 2007
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Minutes: 200
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
History,
Journalism,
War,
Military,
Politics,
American History,
Contemporary,
Military History
A gripping recounting of the slow-moving rebuilding effort in post-war Iraq, "Imperial life" is an extremely well-researched effort by one of the only print journalists to cover the entire Iraq story from the "inside." Chandrasekaran lived in Iraq and had ongoing access to the "Green Zone" -- the wa...
Baghdad’s Green Zone is a world unto itself, with its own power supply, water, restaurants. One need never leave, and many never do. The author describes the separateness of the place but uses that as a base from which to foray out to related subjects. Some of his examples are particularly poignant....