The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
In the haunting tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this remarkably insightful and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein lifts away the top layer of a dictator’s evil and finds complexity beneath as it invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers...
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In the haunting tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song, this remarkably insightful and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein lifts away the top layer of a dictator’s evil and finds complexity beneath as it invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Trained to aggressively confront the enemy in combat, t
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781501117831 (1501117831)
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
I really had no interest in reading a book about Saddam Hussein until I happened upon [b:The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid|32620358|The Prisoner in His Palace Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid|Will Barde...
I don't love that this book compares itself with 'In Cold Blood', a lengthy book that goes to great pains to humanize its subjects and their victims, painting a vivid picture of what happens next after a tragedy. 'The Prisoner in His Palace', on the other hand, is brief (~200 pages without the index...
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