The Fall of Baghdad

<b>Reminiscent of the best war literature such as John Hersey's <i>Hiroshima</i> Michael Herr's <i>Dispatches</i> and Michael Kelly's <i>Martyr's Day</i>. --<i>The Washington Post</i></b><i> <p/>The Fall of Baghdad </i>is 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.