| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
ix, 409 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
My First War -- Mother Of All Battles -- The Years Of The Sanctions -- Baghdad And The Red Room -- Hawassim, The Decisive Battle -- The Statue -- Bakunin In Baghdad -- The Viceroy -- Of Exiles And Militias -- The Rebellion -- Karbala -- A Street In Baghdad -- Falluja -- The Collaterals -- The Shrink -- Hameed -- Saddam Trial -- A Civil War is Born -- The Spy -- The Wedding -- The Baghdad Morgue -- Migration, Part 1 -- The Sunnis Defeated -- The Schoolteacher -- The Sadda -- Hassan -- The New Leader -- The State of Corruption -- Hassan And Maliki -- The Sunni Spring, Syria -- Enter The Jihadis -- The Sunni Spring, Iraqi Version -- The Jihadi begin Building A State -- We Are Coming to Baghdad And Other Delusions -- The Collapse of The Brave New Army -- Fall Of Mosul -- The Shia Mobilise To War -- Diala Frontlines -- The State -- The People Resisting -- Migration Part 2 -- The Colonel -- Ali's War -- Aftermath -- Life And Tragedy Return To Mosul. |
| Summary |
"An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith.
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, Iraqi.
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Baghdad (Iraq) -- Description and travel.
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Baghdad (Iraq) -- History.
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Iraq -- Description and travel.
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Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
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Iraq. (OCoLC)fst01205757
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Iraq -- Baghdad.
(OCoLC)fst01207444
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HISTORY / Asia / General.
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Iraq War (2003-2011) (OCoLC)fst01802311
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| Chronological Term |
2003-2011
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Personal narratives -- Iraqi.
(OCoLC)fst01424120
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Personal narratives.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Abdul-Ahad, Ghaith. Stranger in your own city New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023 9780593536896 (DLC) 2022048465 |
| ISBN |
9780593536889 (hardcover) |
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0593536886 (hardcover) |
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9780593536896 (ebook) |
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