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Get the Summary of Steve Coll's The Achilles Trap in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Achilles Trap" by Steve Coll is a comprehensive account of the political and military events surrounding Iraq's nuclear program and the complex relationship between Iraq, the United States, and other global powers. The narrative follows key figures such as Jafar Dhia Jafar, an Iraqi nuclear physicist, and his colleague Hussain...
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When winners write history, they sometimes "forget" to include their own embarrassing misjudgments. Fortunately, this take-no-prisoners edition of history isn't going to let the winners (or the losers) forget the mistakes of the past. Be prepared to laugh out loud-and gasp in horror-at the most painfully idiotic strategies, alliances, and decisions the world has ever known. These stupid wars have been launched by democracies as well as monarchies...
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Over the last five years, a cycle of films has emerged addressing the ongoing Iraq conflict. Some became well-known and one of them, The Hurt Locker, won a string of Oscars. But many others disappeared into obscurity. What is it about these films that led Variety to dub them a 'toxic genre'?
Martin Barker analyses the production and reception of these recent Iraq war films. Among the issues he examines are the borrowing of soldiers' YouTube styles...
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For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why-and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the Acid Tests to the band's formation of their own record...
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"Suzanne Simons is a masterful storyteller. But make no mistake-Master of War is not a work of fiction….A powerful and true account."
-Wolf Blitzer, anchor, CNN's The Situation Room
Master of War is the riveting true story of Eric Prince, the ex-Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater and built the world's largest military contractor, privatizing war for client nations around the world. A CNN producer and anchor, Suzanne Simons is the first journalist...
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Dispatches from an age of impunity by the ABCTV award-winning, investigative reporter, and former foreign correspondent.
For more than 15 years, journalist Sophie McNeill, has reported on some of the most war-ravaged and oppressive places on earth, including Syria, Gaza, Yemen, West Bank and Iraq.
In We Can't Say We Didn't Know, Sophie tells the human stories of devastation and hope behind the headlines, of children, families and refugees, of valiant...
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Why did the invasion of Iraq result in the destruction of culture and murder of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime.
Post-invasion chaos created conditions under which the cultural foundations of the state could be undermined. The authors painstakingly document the consequences...
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The University of North Carolina Press
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[2024]
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xii, 142 pages ; 22 cm
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"In twenty-four concussive, embodied, and nonlinear essays, Ramos creates a challenging and complex portrait of what it means to be a soldier, civilian, veteran, father, husband, and teacher - for Ramos ultimately becomes a creative writing professor, using the skills he developed in the military to help others tell stories and find meaning in their lives. While this may sound something like a redemption story, it is instead a brutally honest portrayal...
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Penguin Press
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2024.
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xviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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"From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-long relationship between the United States and Saddam Hussein, and a deeply researched and news breaking investigation into how human error, cultural miscommunication, and hubris led to one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of our time When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, its message was clear: Iraq, under the control of strongman Saddam...
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