The Fall of Baghdad

by Anderson, Jon Lee (Author)

• ISBN13: 9780143035855
• ISBN10: 0143035851
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-27
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

For every great historical event, there is seemingly always one reporter whose eyewitness accounts are infused with such power and literary impact that they become joined with the subject in our minds. Widely considered the on-the-ground authority by both journalists and news sources, Jon Lee Anderson’s dispatches out of Baghdad for the New Yorkerwere hailed as the best writing published anywhere on the war. The Fall of Baghdadis a masterpiece of literary reportage about the experience of ordinary Iraqis living through the endgame of the Saddam Hussein regime, its violent fall, and the troubled American occupation. In channeling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people caught up in the whirlwind of history, Jon Lee Anderson has written a book of timeless significance.

Author Biography

Jon Lee Anderson is the author of Guerrillas, Che Guevara, The Lion-'s Grave, and, with his brother, Scott Anderson, War Zones and Inside the League. A staff writer for the New Yorker, Jon Lee Anderson lives in Dorset, England, with his wife and three children.