Coll, Steve

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003

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ISBN 13:: 9780241686652
author:: Coll, Steve
format:: Hardback
publisher:: Allen Lane
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2024
Pages:: 576
Dimensions:: 24 x 16.2 x 3.8 centimetres (0.9
Genre:: History, Military History, United States,
Condition:: New
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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll is a masterful account of America's disastrous war with Iraq and its decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein. Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979, Coll traces his motives through understanding his inner circle, revealing the complex web of ploys of power and geopolitics that led to this conflict. Through unpublished sources, interviews with surviving participants, and Saddam's own transcripts and audio files, Coll brings to life the diplomats, scientists, family members, and generals who had no choice but to defer to their leader. This was a man whose reasoning was impossible to reduce to a simple explanation, and the CIA and successive presidential administrations failed to grasp critical nuances in his paranoia, resentments, and inconsistencies. This book is a remarkable picture of a dictator driven by conviction that the world was out to get him, acting accordingly with devastating consequences for hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. A work of great historical significance, The Achilles Trap sheds light on the avoidable errors of statecraft that led to immeasurable human suffering and forever changed our political landscape.

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