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The Achilles Trap

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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2024**

**A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY THE NEW YORKER**

From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship with Saddam Hussein

The Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long relationship with Saddam Hussein.

Beginning with Saddam's rise to power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons programme, Steve Coll traces ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241686652
SKU
9780241686652
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-2

About Steve Coll
Steve Coll is Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. His major books include Private Empire, The Bin Ladens and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars. He is a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Reviews for The Achilles Trap
PRAISE FOR DIRECTORATES: A cracking read ... The errors Coll catalogues are familiar. What Coll does, though, is present all this in far more detail than anyone before him. Some of the episodes he describes are darkly hilarious ... a must-read for anyone who cares about this never-ending war.
Christina Lamb
Sunday Times
Spellbinding ... a magisterial ... Read more

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