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S'està carregant… Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdadde Oliver Poole
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Oliver Poole was a Telegraph correspondent who was posted to Iraq between 2003 and 2006. In that time he gained firsthand insight into what went right and what went wrong following the invasion and the subsequent breakdown in society. He pulls no punches in this account of his time there and it makes depressing reading, half a million people dead (we can argue about that all day, it is his book I am quoting) and a society forced to turn to guns due to the total lack of security afforded them. While he learned plenty about Iraq, its people, the mistakes made and the inevitable problems faced he doesn't seem to have learned how to structure a book too well. That aside there is more than enough content to make up for the inconsistent pacing. The limited scope he takes helps to keep things personal which makes you confront the stories without the haze of familiarity we get when presented with them in more familiar media settings. This deserves to be read widely. ( ) Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"Imagine cheering on your national football team as your country falls apart; risking suicide bombers and kidnappers to go to the shops; or driving your wife to hospital through roadblocks manned by terrorists as she's about to give birth... Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad is Oliver Poole's extraordinary account of daily life for Iraqis, as well as the British and American soldiers sent to Iraq. It's also the story of Ahmed Ali, tourist guide turned Telegraph interpreter, a job that made him an insurgent target. Poole first crossed into Iraq in March 2003, from Kuwait, as a Daily Telegraph reporter, 'embedded' in the back of an American armoured vehicle. Three weeks later, his unit had fought their way to Baghdad. But when Poole returned to London, he was haunted by the dead: had the bloodshed been worthwhile? Eighteen months later, as the Telegraph's Baghdad Bureau Chief, he came back to find a country racked by suicide bombs and the burgeoning horror of the Sunni-Shia civil war. There he met Ahmed, his closest friend in Baghdad. For the next two years, they worked out of the Baghdad hotel suite where Poole lived. Inevitably, they could not remain unscathed: Poole's hotel-home was blown up and finally Ahmed's family, part Shia, part Sunni, tainted by their international connections, became engulfed by the violence." -- Description from publisher website. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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