Full name: The Prince of the Marshes And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq

Author: Rory Stewart Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics, Memoirs, Travel, War/Military Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780156032797 0156032791

In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart's year. As a participant, he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, this book amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age. Similar books: Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid The Assassins' Gate by George Packer The Places In Between by Rory Stewart The Occupation of Iraq by Ali A. Allawi The Demonic Comedy by Paul William Roberts The Threatening Storm by Kenneth M. Pollack Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn Disarming Iraq by Hans Blix Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran A Hundred and One Days by Asne Seierstad Naked in Baghdad by Anne Garrels The Weight of a Mustard Seed by Wendell Steavenson The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson A Fist in the Hornet's Nest by Richard Engel Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon The Jaguar Smile by Salman Rushdie Bush in Babylon by Tariq Ali Berlin Diary by William L. Shirer Against All Enemies by Richard A. Clarke Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby