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Occupational Hazards
Publisher:
Picador
| Author:
Rory Stewart
| Language:
English
| Format:
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Author:
Rory Stewart
Language:
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‘Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative’ – The Observer By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, then a young British diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority’s deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency. Occupational Hazards is Rory Stewart’s inside account of the attempt to rebuild a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insurmountable difficulties encountered. It reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers, a rare and compelling insight that remains just as important today. ‘Beautifully written, highly evocative . . . a joy to read’ – John Simpson ‘A marvellous book . . . a devastating narrative’ – Simon Jenkins ‘Strikes gut and brain at once’ – James Meek ‘An extraordinarily vivid tale’ The Guardian
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‘Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative’ – The Observer By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, then a young British diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority’s deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency. Occupational Hazards is Rory Stewart’s inside account of the attempt to rebuild a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insurmountable difficulties encountered. It reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers, a rare and compelling insight that remains just as important today. ‘Beautifully written, highly evocative . . . a joy to read’ – John Simpson ‘A marvellous book . . . a devastating narrative’ – Simon Jenkins ‘Strikes gut and brain at once’ – James Meek ‘An extraordinarily vivid tale’ The Guardian
About Author
Rory Stewart has written for the New York Times Magazine, Granta, and the London Review of Books, and is the author of The Places in Between. A former fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire by the British government for services in Iraq. He lives in Scotland.
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