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Achilles Trap

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      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 Saddam's motives through understanding his inner circle. He brings to life the diplomats, scientists, family members and generals who had no choice but to defer to their leader - a leader directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, as well as the torture or imprisonment of many more. This was a man whose reasoning was impossible to reduce to a simple explanation, and the CIA and successive presidential administrations failed to grasp critical nuances in his paranoia, resentments and inconsistencies - even when the stakes were incredibly high.Using unpublished and underreported sources, interviews with surviving participants, and Saddam's own transcripts and audio files, The Achilles Trap is a remarkable picture of a dictator who was convinced the world was out to get him and acted accordingly. A work of great historical significance, it is the definitive account of how corruptions of power, lies of diplomacy and vanity - on both sides - led to avoidable errors of statecraft: ones that would enact immeasurable human suffering and forever change our political landscape.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Steve Coll EAN: 9780241686652 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 750 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-02-27 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Iraq, United States of America, USA, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Political leaders and leadership, Geopolitics, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts

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      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.

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      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 Saddam's motives through understanding his inner circle. He brings to life the diplomats, scientists, family members and generals who had no choice but to defer to their leader - a leader directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, as well as the torture or imprisonment of many more. This was a man whose reasoning was impossible to reduce to a simple explanation, and the CIA and successive presidential administrations failed to grasp critical nuances in his paranoia, resentments and inconsistencies - even when the stakes were incredibly high.Using unpublished and underreported sources, interviews with surviving participants, and Saddam's own transcripts and audio files, The Achilles Trap is a remarkable picture of a dictator who was convinced the world was out to get him and acted accordingly. A work of great historical significance, it is the definitive account of how corruptions of power, lies of diplomacy and vanity - on both sides - led to avoidable errors of statecraft: ones that would enact immeasurable human suffering and forever change our political landscape.
      CONTRIBUTORS: Steve Coll EAN: 9780241686652 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 750 g HEIGHT: 240 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-02-27 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics WIDTH: 156 cm SPINE:

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      Iraq, United States of America, USA, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Political leaders and leadership, Geopolitics, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts

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      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.

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