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The Fall of Baghdad

Anderson, Jon, Lee

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The Fall of Baghdad

"From New Yorker contributor Jon Lee Anderson comes The Fall of Baghdad-a masterpiece of literary reportage about the experience of ordinary Iraqis living through the endgame of the Hussein regime, its violent fall, and the troubled American occupation. For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds-George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; John Hersey's Hiroshima and the dropping of the first atomic bomb; Philip Gourevitch's We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories of Rwanda and the Rwandan genocide. Whatever else is written about the Iraqi people and the fall of Saddam, Jon Lee Anderson's The Fall of Baghdad is worthy of mention in this company. No subject has become more hotly politicized than the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime, and so a thick fog of propaganda, both from boosters of the war and its opponents, has obscured the reality of what the Iraqi people have endured and are enduring, under Saddam Hussein and now. For that reason alone, The Fall of Baghdad is a great and necessary book. Jon Lee Anderson has drawn on all of his reserves of stamina and personal bravery to create an astonishing portrait of humanity in extremis, a work of great wisdom, human empathy, and moral clarity. He follows a remarkable and diverse group of Iraqis over the course of this extraordinary time: from the all-pervasive fear that comes from living under Saddam's brutal, Orwellian rule to the surreal atmosphere of Baghdad before the invasion; to the invasion's commencement and the regime's death spiral down into its terrible endgame; to America's disastrously ill-conceived seizure of power and its fruits. In channeling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in thewhirlwind of history, Jon Lee Anderson has written a book of timeless significance. "

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Title of ebook: The Fall of Baghdad
ISBN: 9780786552559
Publisher: Penguin Press
Internet download file size: 483 kb
Released online for download: 10-29-2004
Author of eBook: Anderson, Jon, Lee

The Fall of Baghdad

Chapter One

On the ninth day of the war, there was some bombing, but it was desultory, mostly on the fringes of the city. People came out to shop, and a few businesses opened their doors. In the late afternoon, I went out for a drive with a couple of friends. On Sadoun Street, sidewalk vendors were selling kerosene lamps and plastic jerricans for storing water and fuel. A few men were buying bread and eggs and vegetables for their families from the stallholders around Tahrir Square. In a dusty strip of park, a group of boys played soccer, and a man was shining shoes. We stopped for tea in an ancient coffeehouse on Rashid Street, in the former Jewish quarter. It was filled with old men playing dominoes and smoking narghila waterpipes. Some watched the television set, which was showing scenes of Iraqi civilians and soldiers around the country dancing and waving weapons, singing odes to Saddam Hussein and chanting slogans against George W. Bush. The atmosphere in the cafe was calm and meditative. Except for the television images, it felt almost as if there were no war.

At about nine o'clock, after having dinner at one of Baghdad's two restaurants still open for business, we heard that there had been a bombing in which many civilians had been killed. We raced ... read full excerpt from The Fall of Baghdad ebook