The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein United States And Middle East 1979-2003 Steve Coll Allen Lane Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

**Shortlisted For The Orwell Prize 2024****A Best Book Of 2024 By New Yorker** From Pulitzer Winner And Bestselling Author Ghost Wars Inside Story America\ S Long Ruinous Relationship With Saddam Husseinthe Achilles Trap Masterfully Untangles People Ploys Power Geopolitics That Led To Disastrous War Iraq First Time Details Fundamental Miscalculations During Its Decades-Long Hussein Beginning Saddam\ Rise In 1979 Birth Iraq\ Secret Nuclear Weapons Programme Steve Coll Traces Motives Through Understanding His Inner Circle He Brings Life Diplomats Scientists Family Members Generals Who Had No Choice But Defer Their Leader - A Directly Responsible Deaths Hundreds Thousands Iraqis As Well Torture Or Imprisonment Many More This Was Man Whose Reasoning Impossible Reduce Simple Explanation Cia Successive Presidential Administrations Failed Grasp Critical Nuances Paranoia Resentments Inconsistencies Even When Stakes Were Incredibly High Using Unpublished Underreported Sources Interviews Surviving Participants Own Transcripts Audio Files Is Remarkable Picture Dictator Convinced World Out Get Him Acted Accordingly Work Great Historical Significance It Definitive Account How Corruptions Lies Diplomacy Vanity On Both Sides Avoidable Errors Statecraft: Ones Would Enact Immeasurable Human Suffering Forever Change Our Political Landscape Σελίδες: 576 Διαστάσεις: 16 2X16 2Cm