ITEM OVERVIEW
In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. In The Occupation, Cockburn describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the failure of the US occupation, the springs of the resistance and how it turned into a full scale uprising. Explaining how the three main Iraqi communities, the Kurds, the Shia and the Sunni, responded to the growing conflict, he gives us a nuanced portrait of daily life in Baghdad, of how Iraqis themselves reacted to the invasion and the long war and occupation that followed. In this new, fully updated edition, Cockburn explores the full-scale uprising, the descent into civil war, and the impact of the "surge" of US forces into Baghdad, and the occupation's continuing destabilization of Iraq and the wider Middle East.
"Cockburn writes with authority and understatement... He'll be read when the rest of us are long forgotten." — The Times
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