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The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein
Sandra Mackey
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Hardcover. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
Saddam Hussein is high on America's enemies listbut does an Iraq without him hold the seeds of the next Yugoslavia? To the dismay of many in the West, the Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in control, still defiant, and determined to use any means of striking back. This book sounds an urgent note of caution: a future Iraq without Hussein could be even more unstable and more problematical to the security of the United States. The Reckoning is an account of the forceshistorical, religious, ethnic, and politicalthat produced Saddam's dictatorship. Forged after World War I from the Mesopotamian ... Read more
Saddam Hussein is high on America's enemies listbut does an Iraq without him hold the seeds of the next Yugoslavia? To the dismay of many in the West, the Gulf War ended with Saddam Hussein still in control, still defiant, and determined to use any means of striking back. This book sounds an urgent note of caution: a future Iraq without Hussein could be even more unstable and more problematical to the security of the United States. The Reckoning is an account of the forceshistorical, religious, ethnic, and politicalthat produced Saddam's dictatorship. Forged after World War I from the Mesopotamian ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393051414
SKU
KTG0008499
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99-1
About Sandra Mackey
Sandra Mackey (1937—2015) was a veteran journalist who had written many books on the Middle East, including The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein, Lebanon, The Saudis, and The Iranians.
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