Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq
Author(s): Rory Stewart
By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, a young Biritish diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority's deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency. Rory Stewart's inside account of the attempt to re-build a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insumountable difficulties encountered, reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers. Stewart is an award-winning writer, gifted with extraordinary insight into the comedy, occasional heroism and moral risks of foreign occupation.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Campbell Books Ltd
- : 0.316
- : 04 May 2007
- : 3 Centimeters X 13 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Rory Stewart
- : Paperback
- : 0707
- : English
- : 956.70443092
- : 320