Iraq: Five Years Later
Six books on the lives lost, the money spent and the opportunities squandered.
Six books on the lives lost, the money spent and the opportunities squandered.
Ashley Gilbertson
Defeat (By Jonathan Steele)
A British journalist asks hard questions about the occupation.
 
The Three Trillion Dollar War (By Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes)
Two economists attempt to calculate the price of U.S. intervention in Iraq.
 
Daydream Believers (By Fred Kaplan)
An analyst diagnoses a case of wishful thinking among policymakers.
 
The War for America, 1775-1783 (By Piers Mackesy)
Revisit the startling parallels between the Iraq War and the American Revolution.
 
Washington's War: From Independence to Iraq (By Gen. Sir Michael Rose)
George W. Bush as King George III is much more than a comparison drawn (literally) by an editorial cartoonist, as this book details.
 
Dreams and Shadows (By Robin Wright)
A journalist travels the Middle East, looking for change.
 

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