A brilliant, insightful account of how Iraqis have viewed our invasion. McCarthy meets ordinary and extraordinary Iraqis, taking considerable risks in doing so. This is some of the best writing about Iraq since the ...
Jon Snow
This is an excellent book, written with perception and empathy, it gives us rare access to the thinking of a population deeply traumatised by dictatorship, brutality and civil war
Toby Dodge, expert on Iraqi politics at the University of London and for the International Institute of Strategic Studies