For every great historical event at least one reporter writes an eyeopeningaccount of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with itssubject in o... » 

For every great historical event at least one reporter writes an eyeopeningaccount of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with itssubject in our minds George Orwells Homage to Catalonia and the SpanishCivil War John Herseys Hiroshima and the dropping of the first atomic bombPhilip Gourevitchs We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed withOur Families and the Rwandan genocide. Whatever else is written about the Iraqipeople and the fall of Saddam Jon Lee Andersons The Fall of Baghdad willremain the classic book about the Iraq War. No subject has become more hotlypoliticized than the toppling of Saddam Husseins regime and so a thick fog ofpropaganda has obscured the reality of what the Iraqi people have endured andare enduring under Saddam Hussein and now. Jon Lee Anderson has created anastonishing portrait of humanity in extremis a work of great wisdom humanempathy and moral clarity. In channelling a tragedy of epic dimensions throughthe stories of real people caught up in the whirlwind of history Jon LeeAnderson has written a book of timeless significance. «