Dawn Over Baghdad

Dawn Over Baghdad
Author: Karl Zinsmeister
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 1594030901

"Dawn Over Baghdad takes you into Iraq's urban neighborhoods, rural villages, and guerilla snake pits, and shows exactly how young American soldiers are quietly but inexorably choking off a terrorist insurrection and planting the seeds (sometimes at great personal cost) of a dramatically different Middle East. Zinsmeister brings home an insightful story missed by the major media: with the cooperation of millions of everyday Iraqis, the U.S. is gradually approaching something historic - success in a tough guerilla war."--BOOK JACKET.

Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Baghdad

Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Baghdad
Author: Dawn Kotapish
Publisher: Lerner Publications
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780822532194

A historical exploration of events and daily life in Baghdad in both ancient and modern times.

Baghdad at Sunrise

Baghdad at Sunrise
Author: Peter R. Mansoor
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300142633

An on-the-ground commander describes his brigade's first year in Iraq after the U.S. forces seized Baghdad in the spring of 2003, and explains what went right and wrong as the U.S. military confronted an insurgency, in a firsthand analysis of success and failure in Iraq.

Nightcap at Dawn

Nightcap at Dawn
Author: J. B. Walker
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2012-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 162087170X

A group of U.S. soldiers emailed their observations and experiences from Iraq and their candid opinions on fighting an insurgency. This book is the result. This startling collection of emails is a thoughtful and compelling narrative that carries the reader from the alleys and city streets to the homes of long-suffering Iraqis, and from the soldiers’ concrete bunkers to the “majestic” army base. Along the way, the reader is asked to consider the puzzles posed for a disciplined army engaged with an enemy that hides amid—and indeed, targets—a civilian population.

Hunting the Caliphate

Hunting the Caliphate
Author: Dana J.H. Pittard
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2019-08-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1642930563

In this vivid first-person narrative, a Special Operations Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and his commanding general give fascinating and detailed accounts of America’s fight against one of the most barbaric insurgencies the world has ever seen. In the summer of 2014, three years after America’s full troop withdrawal from the Iraq War, President Barack Obama authorized a small task force to push back into Baghdad. Their mission: Protect the Iraqi capital and U.S. embassy from a rapidly emerging terrorist threat. A plague of brutality, that would come to be known as ISIS, had created a foothold in northwest Iraq and northeast Syria. It had declared itself a Caliphate—an independent nation-state administered by an extreme and cruel form of Islamic law—and was spreading like a newly evolved virus. Soon, a massive and devastating U.S. military response had unfolded. Hear the ground truth on the senior military and political interactions that shaped America’s war against ISIS, a war unprecedented in both its methodology and its application of modern military technology. Enter the world of the Strike Cell, secretive operations centers where America’s greatest enemies are hunted and killed day and night. Plunge into the realm of the Special Operations JTAC, American warfighters with the highest enemy kill counts on the battlefield. And gain the wisdom of a cumulative half-century of military experience as Dana Pittard and Wes Bryant lay out the path to a sustained victory over ISIS. For more information about the book, visit www.huntingthecaliphate.com.

Barefoot in Baghdad

Barefoot in Baghdad
Author: Manal Omar
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2010-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1402237294

"Walk barefoot and the thorns will hurt you…" —Iraqi-Turkmen proverb A riveting story of hope and despair, of elation and longing, Barefoot in Baghdad takes you to the front lines of a different kind of battle, where the unsung freedom fighters are strong, vibrant—and female. An American aid worker of Arab descent, Manal Omar moves to Iraq to help as many women as she can rebuild their lives. She quickly finds herself drawn into the saga of a people determined to rise from the ashes of war and sanctions and rebuild their lives in the face of crushing chaos. This is a chronicle of Omar's friendships with several Iraqis whose lives are crumbling before her eyes. It is a tale of love, as her relationship with one Iraqi man intensifies in a country in turmoil. And it is the heartrending stories of the women of Iraq, as they grapple with what it means to be female in a homeland you no longer recognize. "Manal Omar captures the complex reality of living and working in war-torn Iraq, a reality that tells the story of love and hope in the midst of bombs and explosions."—Zainab Salbi, founder and CEO of Women for Women International, and author (with Laurie Becklund) of the national bestselling book Between Two Worlds: Escape from Tyranny: Growing Up in the Shadow of Saddam "A fascinating, honest, and inspiring portrait of a women's rights activist in Iraq, struggling to help local women while exploring her own identity. Manal Omar is a skilled guide into Iraq, as she understands the region, speaks Arabic, and wears the veil. At turns funny and tragic, she carries a powerful message for women, and delivers it through beautiful storytelling."—Christina Asquith, author of Sisters in War: A Story of Love, Family and Survival in the New Iraq "At turns funny and tragic…a powerful message for women, [delivered] through beautiful storytelling."—Christina Asquith, author of Sisters in War

Bookless In Baghdad

Bookless In Baghdad
Author: Shashi Tharoor
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2005
Genre: Authors, Indic
ISBN: 9780670058204

Shashi Tharoor Began Reading Books Enid Blyton S Noddy Series When He Was Three. By The Time He Was Ten, He Had Published His First Work Of Fiction, Operation Bellows, A Credulity-Stretching Saga Of An Anglo-Indian Fighter Pilot. In Between Were Years When He Read A Book A Day. And In The Years Since, He Has Published Eight Books And Written For Many Indian And Foreign Publications. Bookless In Baghdad Brings Together Pieces Written Over The Past Decade By This Compulsive Reader And Prolific Writer On The Subject Closest To His Heart: Reading. In These Essays On Books, Authors, Reviews, Critics, Literary Festivals, Literary Aspirants, Empire, And India, Tharoor Takes Us On A Delightful Journey Of Discovery. He Wanders The Book Souk In A Baghdad Under Sanctions Where The Middle-Class Are Selling Their Volumes So That They Can Afford To Live; Analyses The Indianness Of Salman Rushdie; Discusses P.G. Wodehouse S Enduring Popularity In India; And Drives Around Huesca Looking To Pay An Idiosyncratic Tribute To George Orwell. There Are Excursions Into The Pitfalls Of Reviewing, Explorations Of The Anxiety Of Audience Of Indian English Writers, And A Wicked Account Of How Norman Mailer Dealt With A Negative Review.

All Roads Lead to Baghdad

All Roads Lead to Baghdad
Author: Charles Harry Briscoe
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN:

By Charles H. Briscoe, et al. Tells the story of Iraqi Freedom, the second Army Special Operations (ASO) campaign in America's Global War on Terrorism. Shows how the ASO supported a US-led conventional air and ground offensive to collapse the regime of Saddam Hussein and capture Baghdad. Includes bibliographical references.

Rain over Baghdad

Rain over Baghdad
Author: Hala El Badry
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2014-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1617975559

What was it like to live in Iraq before the earth-shaking events of the end of the twentieth century? The mid seventies to the late eighties witnessed Saddam Hussein's rise to power, the establishment of Kurdish autonomy in the north, and the Iraq-Iran war. It also brought an influx of oil wealth, following the 1973 war and the spike in oil prices, and a parallel influx of Arab talent, including many Egyptians, as the Egyptian left became disenchanted with Sadat. The massive migration also extended to workers and peasants, some of whom created an entire Egyptian village just outside Baghdad. We witness all of this and more through the eyes of an Egyptian woman married to an engineer working in Iraq. The narrator, who works for an Egyptian magazine's bureau in the Iraqi capital, has a behind-the-scenes view of what was really happening at a critical juncture in the history of the region. Moreover, she has a mystery to solve: an Iraqi woman from the marshes in the south of Iraq, who is also a communist journalist, has disappeared, and as the mystery unfolds we learn of her love for an older Egyptian Marxist journalist. This is Iraq before and beyond Saddam, Iraq as the Arabs knew it, in the lives of interesting people living in a vibrant country before the attempted annexation of Kuwait and the American invasion. This is the Iraq that was