Saddam Hussein
by Andrew Cockburn & Patrick Cockburn
A biography of the events of the 1990s. It describes a lot about what went on in Saddam’s regime and very artfully weaves in some reportage that the authors have done themselves. There are also some very good accounts of what Iraq was like during the UN sanctions, when life for Iraqis became very difficult. But what you have to remember with this book and all those written in Saddam’s time is that reliable and accurate information is very hard to come by. To try to make sense of it is very admirable.
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“A biography of the events of the 1990s. It describes a lot about what went on in Saddam’s regime and very artfully weaves in some reportage that the authors have done themselves.” Read more...
Colin Freeman, Journalist
