Archive for: February 2007

Former senator George McGovern and William R. Polk, a leading authority on the Middle East, offer a detailed plan for a speedy troop withdrawal from Iraq.

During

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Named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San …

In 1928, Agatha Christie—the world’s most widely read author—was a thirty-something single mother. With her first marriage falling apart, she has decided to take a much-needed …

The first bombs of Operation Iraqi Freedom rained down on Baghdad on March 20, 2003. Since then, roughly one million young Americans have rotated through Iraq. …

On March 15, 2006, members from both parties in Congress supported the creation of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group to review the situation on the ground …

The End of Iraq, definitive, tough-minded, clear-eyed, describes America’s failed strategy toward that country and what must be done now.

The United States invaded Iraq with grand

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What happens when Washington, D.C. pundits and journalists run in the same social circles as the powerful people they cover? When the President and his administration …

Customer Review: Mass Amnesia?

This book, published in 1993, details Reagan’s and Bush’s (41) involvement in supplying Iraq with technology, funding, and weapons of mass destruction. Duplicity and illegal tactics were used to support the regime of Saddam Hussein …

Informed by unparalleled access to still–secret documents, interviews with top field commanders, and a review of the military’s own internal after–action reports, Cobra II is the …

In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an …

“Detailed, passionate and convincing . . . [with] the pace and grip of a good thriller.”—Anatol Lieven, The New York Times Book Review
“Regime change” did …

March 2003: The United States invades Iraq.

October 2006: The world finds out why.

What was really behind the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq? As …

An investigative history of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein’s crimes reveals the story his trial never will.

In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq …

The definitive military chronicle of the Iraq war and a searing judgment on the strategic blindness with which America has conducted it, drawing on the accounts …

An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for

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