Presents the life and leadership of the former president of Iraq, who defied UN sanctions and was captured by American soldiers in December 2003.
A unique and revealing portrait of Saddam Hussein's Iraq which was every bit as authoritarian and brutal as Stalin's Russia or Mao's China.
In July 1979, Saddam Hussein became the President of Iraq. His dictum was simply expressed—power through terror. During the first decade of his presidency, Saddam engaged in three wars: the...
Read this book to learn more about the internal workings of one of the world’s most devastating dictatorships.
A biography of the powerful president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, whose rule began in 1979 with a coup and the assassination of sixty-six men who were allegedly conspiring against him.
... Inside the horrific mind of the Butcher of Baghdad.
An account of the forces-historical, religious, ethnic, and political-that produced Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.
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Woolsey did , however , decree that no one who had ever been Ames's superior should be given any sort of agency award or commendation . Frank Anderson had never been in contact with Ames , but his old friend Milt Bearden had .
Through a grand strategy of “Ba’thification,” Faust argues that Hussein mixed classic totalitarian means with distinctly Iraqi methods to transform state, social, and cultural institutions into Ba’thist entities, and the public and ...
Georges Sada was one of Saddam's top generals and foremost military advisors.