The Fall of Baghdad

"This is a necessary book, the best I've read about Iraq." --David Lipsky, The New York Times Book Review "Indispensable for understanding what is going on inside Iraqi society today." --The Washington Post

The Fall of Baghdad

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.