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Ally
to Adversary : An Eyewitness Account of Iraq's Fall from Grace
by Rick Francona, Leonard H. Perroots
America
at War : The Battle for Iraq: A View from the Frontlines
by Dan Rather, The Reporters of CBS News
Book Description: In America at War, Dan Rather and the reporters
of CBS News provide a unique historical record of military conflict from
a riveting vantage point -- alongside our brave soldiers on the frontlines
of combat.
During the war in Iraq, journalists and photographers embedded among
our troops had an unprecedented view of the fierce realities experienced
by our men and women in uniform -- from the extreme heroism of battle to
the poignancy of humanitarian efforts. Long heralded for setting the standard
for television journalism, Dan Rather and his CBS News colleagues deliver
here a volume of work that captures, as never before, that firsthand perspective.
In reflective personal commentary, stunning photographs, and groundbreaking
video, the exhilarating and heartbreaking stories of war come vividly to
life against the backdrop of a military conflict that affected Americans
at home and abroad.
Among the contributors is Mark Strassmann, embedded with the First Brigade
of the 101st Airborne in Kuwait, who recalls the aftermath of the shocking
fratricide that claimed one officer's life and injured fourteen others.
Allen Pizzey relays his conversation with a U.S.-backed Kurdish fighter
outside of Mosul, still reeling with anger after a U.S. air strike gone
devastatingly wrong killed more than seventeen. Jim Axelrod recounts the
heart-stopping moment when the Humvee in which he was traveling quit in
the middle of an unprotected bridge, and with AK-47 fire whistling overhead,
his colleagues in a nearby truck performed a daring rescue. These and many
other stories are reported with the vivid detail and emotional resonance
of firsthand experience.
A full-length DVD tells the full chronological story of the military
conflict and brings together some of the most powerful war images ever
captured -- from video of blazing firepower to intimate, revealing interviews
with military personnel. The DVD also contains special features, including
Dan Rather's exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein, gripping stories
of soldiers lost and rescued, and an informative library of military vehicles
and aircraft.
From the first jet that took off from the USS Abraham to the now-famous
toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad, the reporters of CBS
News were there on the frontlines, documenting history as it happened.
Now, in words, photographs, and video, America at War provides a unique
historical record of a controversial military conflict, and preserves the
deeply human moments that will remain a lasting part of our national consciousness.
Hardcover from Simon & Schuster
Book Published: September, 2003
Arab War Lords and Iraqi Star Gazers: Gertrude Bell's the Arab of
Mesopotamia
by Paul Rich
Listed under Arabian
Travels
Ancient Iraq (Penguin History)
by Georges Roux
Listed under Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamia: Portrait of a Dead Civilization
by A. Leo Oppenheim
Listed under Mesopotamia
Assur
Is King! Assur Is King: Religion in the Exercise of Power in the Neo-Assyrian
Empire
by Steven W. Holloway
Embedded:
The Media At War in Iraq
by Bill Katovsky, Timothy Carlson
Hardcover from Globe Pequot Pr
Book Published: September, 2003
The
Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon: About 2250 B.C.
edited by Robert Francis Harper.
Hardcover: ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.25 x 9.50 x 6.50
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.; Reprint edition
(February 2000)
ISBN: 1584770031
Chronicles
Concerning Early Babylonian Kings
by Leonard W. King (Editor)
Hardcover
Publisher: AMS Press; Reprint edition (February 1, 2003)
ISBN: 0404181856
Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer,
Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by Janet Wallach
Listed under Arabian
Travels
The
Final Sack of Nineveh: The Discovery, Documentation, and Destruction of
King Sennacherib's Throne Room at Nineveh, Iraq
by John Malcolm Russell
Book Description When the throne room of the ancient Assyrian
"Palace without Rival" was rediscovered in 1847, its sculptures remained
amazingly intact. But air pollution, animal damage, vandalism, neglect,
and now looting for the international art market have brought ruin to the
palace. Its splendor now survives only in this book, which presents for
the first time the only extensive photographic records of Sennacherib`s
palace. .
Hardcover: 192 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.01 x
11.54 x 9.97
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; (October 1998)
ISBN: 0300074182
ENDGAME:
Solving the Iraq Problem -- Once and For All
by Scott Ritter
Paperback: 256 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.65 x
8.58 x 5.96
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper); ; (November
2002)
ISBN: 0743247728
Freya Stark in Iraq & Kuwait (The Freya Stark Archives Series)
by Malise Ruthven (Editor), et al
Listed under Freya
Stark
Iraq
Under Siege : The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War
by Anthony Arnove (Editor), Ali Abunimah (Editor)
The
Greatest Threat: Iraq, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the Crisis of Global
Security
by Richard Butler, James Charles Roy
This is the memoir of a frustrated man. Richard Butler is the former
chairman of UNSCOM, the United Nations-appointed arms-inspection team assigned
to Iraq in the wake of the Gulf War. Between 1992 and 1997, Butler toiled
to prevent Saddam Hussein from manufacturing and stockpiling weapons of
mass destruction. UNSCOM experienced some success, but it was essentially
a failure thanks to the intransigence and intimidation Butler faced from
without (by Saddam's henchmen, such as Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz)
and from within (members of Butler's own task force, representing the interests
of their own countries, constantly undercut him). And this "constitutes
a serious crisis in global security," writes Butler. "While the full nature
and scope of [Saddam's] current programs cannot be known precisely because
of the absence of inspections and monitoring, it would be foolish in the
extreme not to assume that he is: developing long-range missile capabilities;
at work again on building nuclear weapons; and adding to the chemical and
biological warfare weapons he concealed during the UNSCOM inspection period."
Butler's account of his own efforts is, as he freely admits, "far more
important than it is colorful." If readers hunger for a spy thriller about
Iraq, they should turn to novelist Frederick Forsyth's The Fist of God
instead of The Greatest Threat. But if they want a realistic look at Middle
Eastern power politics, the maddening challenge of disarmament, and a few
vivid reminders that Saddam is both "determined and diabolical," Butler's
book
is an excellent resource. Butler, who is Australian, closes with an idealistic
call to stop nuclear proliferation, urging Americans to forsake "the pursuit
of purely national goals": "By leading the global community in the effort
of reducing and then eliminating the unique danger posed by weapons of
mass destruction, the United States can assure itself the highest and most
justly honored place among nations in the annals of history." Whether or
not readers agree with that sentiment, Butler convincingly shows that reducing
Saddam's ability to make war is in virtually everybody's interest. --John
J. Miller - Amazon.com
Paperback: 288 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.80 x
9.30 x 6.22
Publisher: PublicAffairs; (May 22, 2001)
ISBN: 1586480391
The
Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
by Sandra MacKey
from W.W. Norton & Company
Republic
of Fear : The Politics of Modern Iraq
by Kanan Makiya
Originally written under the pseudonym Samir al-Khalil and published
before the Gulf War, Republic of Fear describes the rise of Saddam Hussein
and the Arab Ba'th Socialist party. The author, an Iraqi expatriate now
living in the United States, offers this updated edition under his real
name, Kanan Makiya. A new introduction discusses events following the invasion
of Kuwait ("the chamber of horrors that is Saddam Hussein's Iraq has grown
into something that not even the most morbid imagination could have dreamed
up"). The book is not merely a chronicle of recent Iraqi politics, but
a discussion of why the country has evolved into "a Kafkaesque world ...
one ruled and held together by fear." Essential reading for anybody who
wants to understand modern Iraq. --John J. Miller - Amazon.com
Paperback: 323 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.98 x
9.03 x 6.04
Publisher: University of California Press; Updated edition
(June 1998)
ISBN: 0520214390
The Continuing Storm : Iraq, Poisonous Weapons, and Deterrence
by Avigdor Haselkorn
Listed under Gulf
War 1991
Independent
Iraq
by Matthew Ellio
Hardcover: 248 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.00 x
8.75 x 5.75
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd; (December 1996)
ISBN: 1850437297
A
Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq
by Christopher Hitchens
Paperback from Plume
Book Published: 03 June, 2003
The Longest War: The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict
by Dilip Hiro
Listed under Iran-Iraq
War
Naked
in Baghdad
by Anne Garrels
Book Description: As National Public Radio's senior foreign
correspondent, Anne Garrels has covered conflicts in Chechnya, Bosnia,
Kosovo, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. She is renowned for direct, down-to-earth,
insightful reportage, and for her independent take on what she sees. One
of only sixteen un-embedded American journalists who stayed in Baghdad's
now-legendary Palestine Hotel throughout the American invasion of Iraq,
she was at the very center of the storm. Naked in Baghdad gives us the
sights, sounds, and...
Hardcover from Farrar Straus & Giroux
Book Published: September, 2003
Sumer
and the Sumerians
by Harriet Crawford
Book Description Up-to-date historical and archaeological sources
are drawn on in a review of the extraordinary social and technological
developments, from 3800 to 2000 BC, of one of the best-known ancient civilizations
of Mesopotamia.
Paperback: 182 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.34 x
9.68 x 7.48
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt); (April 1991)
ISBN: 0521388503
Sennacherib's
Palace Without Rival at Nineveh
by John Malcolm Russell
Book Description Best known today from biblical accounts of
his exploits and ignominious end, the Assyrian king Sennacherib (704-681
B.C.) was once the ruler of all western Asia. In his capital at Nineveh,
in what is now northern Iraq, he built what he called the "Palace without
Rival." Though only scattered traces of this magnificent structure are
visible today, contemporary written descriptions and surviving wall reliefs
permit a remarkably detailed reconstruction of the appearance and significance
of the palace.
An art historian trained in ancient Near East philology, archaeology,
and history, John Malcolm Russell marshals these resources to investigate
the meaning and political function of the palace of Sennacherib. He contends
that the meaning of the monument cannot be found in images or texts alone;
nor can these be divorced from architectural context. Thus his study combines
discussions of the context of inscriptions in Sennacherib's palace with
reconstructions of its physical appearance and analyses of the principles
by which the subjects of Sennacherib's reliefs were organized to express
meaning. Many of the illustrations are published here for the first time,
notably drawings of palace reliefs made by nineteenth-century excavators
and photographs taken in the course of the author's own excavations at
Nineveh. John Malcolm Russell is assistant professor in the Department
of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.
Hardcover: 342 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.10 x
9.68 x 6.91
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; (August 1991)
ISBN: 0226731758
Piety
and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical
Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (The Bible in Its World)
by Dale Launderville
Hardcover: 410 pages
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.; (March 2003)
ISBN: 0802839940
A
History of Iraq
by Charles Tripp
from Cambridge Univ Pr (Trd)
Iraq
Strategy Review : Five Options for U.S. Policy
by Patrick L. Clawson et al.
Washington Institute For Near East Policy; (June 1998)
Iraq
and the War of Sanctions : Conventional Threats and Weapons of Mass Destruction
by Anthony H. Cordesman
Iraq
and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Gulf
by Stephen Pelletiere (Author)
Praeger Publishers; (January 30, 2001)
Confronting
Iraq : U.S. Policy and the Use of Force Since the Gulf War
by Daniel L. Byman, Matthew C. Waxman
The
Shi'is of Iraq
by Yitzhak Nakash
Book Description Iraqi Shi'is, the country's majority group,
are nevertheless politically disinherited, as was vividly demonstrated
in the aftermath of the Gulf War. Here Yitzhak Nakash provides a rich historical
background for understanding their place in today's Sunni-dominated Iraq.
The first comprehensive work on the Shi'is of Iraq, this book challenges
the widely held belief that their culture and politics are a reflection
of Iranian Shi'ism. In examining the years between the rise of the Shi'i
strongholds Najaf and Karbala in the mid-eighteenth century and the collapse
of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958, Nakash shows that the growth of Iraqi Shi'ism
was closely related to socioeconomic and political developments in the
nineteenth century.
Paperback: 340 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.85 x
9.23 x 6.17
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr; Reprint edition (October
30, 1995)
ISBN: 0691006431
Sovereign
Creations : Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq
by Malik Mufti
Pariah
States and Sanctions in the Middle East : Iraq, Libya, Sudan (The Middle
East in the International System)
by Tim Niblock
Saddam's
Bombmaker : The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon
by Khidr Abd Al-Abbas Hamzah, Khidhir Hamza, Jeff Stein (Contributor)
"I am lucky to be alive," writes Khidhir Hamza on the opening page
of this memoir, which reads like a thriller. Hamza describes how he helped
Saddam Hussein design a nuclear bomb over the course of 22 years. He has
an amazing story to relate, and with the help of collaborator Jeff Stein,
he tells it remarkably well. It begins with his cloak-and-dagger escape
from Baghdad in 1994, then goes back in time to describe the education
he received earlier in the United States. Hamza returned to his native
Iraq, and Saddam seduced him into accepting the comfortable life of an
atomic scientist trying to build a bomb for a megalomaniac. Hamza presents
a terrifying, almost psychotic portrait of Hussein himself: the dictator--a
man with "yellow, lifeless eyes"--has a paranoid fear of germs and a taste
for Johnnie Walker Blue Label. He's prone to drunken rages and relies on
sedatives to keep control of himself: "His personality grew more erratic
with the ups and downs of the drugs, the liquor, and the pressures of command."
Hamza recounts a story told by one of Saddam's doctors, in which the strongman
was found "stomping about his palace bedroom in a blood-splotched shirt"
near the body of a woman whose throat was slit.
Hamza was eventually kept under house arrest, and even threatened with
torture. His escape was an astonishing feat, and the message he brought
to the West is vital: "I have no doubt that Iraq is pursuing the nuclear
option." The Gulf War slowed development, but failed to shut it down. The
coalition that knocked Saddam out of Kuwait has fallen apart, and United
Nations inspectors no longer try to keep him in check. Hamza urges policymakers
to confront Saddam, and suggests that the CIA redouble its efforts to help
topnotch scientists flee from their virtual captivity. If rogue nations
experience a brain drain, he says, their capacity to produce weapons of
mass destruction will suffer. Saddam's Bombmaker is hard to put down and
essential reading for anybody interested in national security. --John J.
Miller - Amazon.com
Paperback: 352 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.90 x
8.56 x 6.62
Publisher: Touchstone Books; (October 30, 2001)
ISBN: 0743211359
Storm
over Iraq : Air Power and the Gulf War
by Richard P. Hallion
Sanctioning
Saddam : The Politics of Intervention in Iraq
by Sarah Graham-Brown
Saddam
Hussein: A Political Biography
by Efraim Karsh, Inari Rautsi
from Grove Press
Treasures
from the Royal Tombs of Ur
by Richard L. Zettler (Editor), Lee Horne (Editor), Donald P. Hansen
Hardcover: 220 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.95 x
11.32 x 8.92
Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Mus Babylonian; (October
1998)
ISBN: 0924171545
The
Scourging of Iraq : Sanctions, Law and Natural Justice
by Geoff Simons
VHPS/St. Martin's Press; 2nd edition (June 1996)
Weapons
of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush's War on Iraq
by Sheldon Rampton, John C. Stauber
Paperback from J. P. Tarcher
Book Published: July, 2003
A Kurdish-English Dictionary : Dialect of Sulaimania, Iraq
by Ernest N. McCarus
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Books
Nebuchadnezzar and Babylon
by Donald J. Wiseman
Book Description This new examination of the reign of Nebuchadrezzar
II of Babylon (605-562 B.C.) includes a revised interpretation of the Babylonian
Chronicles of his reign, especially for the years of the campaign against
Judah and the capture of Jerusalem. On the basis of textual evidence, the
author assesses the character of Nebuchadrezzar as a military and political
leader, religious devotee, and legal administrator.
Paperback: 142 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.51 x
9.64 x 5.74
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (May
1991)
ISBN: 0197261000
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Saddam Hussein : Absolute Ruler of Iraq
by Rebecca Stefoff
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Saddam's Secrets--The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons
by Tim Trevan
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Mesopotamia: The Mighty Kings
by Dale M. Brown (Editor)
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Babylonian Historical Texts Relating to the Capture and Downfall
of Babylon
by Sidney Smith
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