The Fall of Baghdad

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM THE AUTHOR

In the months leading up to the American invasion of Iraq, Jon Lee Anderson embedded himself among the people of Baghdad while they waited for the hammer to fall, one of the only foreign journalists who were on the wrong side of the line. He was able to bear witness to what the people in this city had to endure before, during and after the collapse of Saddam Hussain’s repressive regime.

In so doing he creates a unique picture of the consequences of war and brings to very human light the intense, claustrophobic feeling of being trapped in a city about to be devastated by the might of the world’s most modern and well-equipped army.