Bardenwerper Will The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid 9781501117848

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Автор: Bardenwerper Will
Название: The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
ISBN: 9781501117848
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Классификация: ISBN-10: 150111784X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.23 кг.
Дата издания: 02.10.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 211 x 140 x 20
Поставляется из: США
Описание: In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioners Song, this haunting, insightful, and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein provides a brief, but powerful, meditation on the meaning of evil and power (USA TODAY).The captivating (Military Times) The Prisoner in His Palace invites us to take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Shortly after being deployed to Iraq, they learn their assignment: guarding Saddam Hussein in the months before his execution. Living alongside, and caring for, their high value detainee and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning some of their most basic assumptions--about the judicial process, Saddams character, and the morality of modern war. Although the young soldiers increasingly intimate conversations with the once-feared dictator never lead them to doubt his responsibility for unspeakable crimes, the men do discover surprising new layers to his psyche that run counter to the medias portrayal of him. Woven from firsthand accounts provided by many of the American guards, government officials, interrogators, scholars, spies, lawyers, family members, and victims, The Prisoner in His Palace shows two Saddams coexisting in one person: the defiant tyrant who uses torture and murder as tools, and a shrewd but contemplative prisoner who exhibits surprising affection, dignity, and courage in the face of looming death. In this thought-provoking narrative, Saddam, known as the man without a conscience, gets many of those around him to examine theirs. A singular study exhibiting both military duty and human compassion (Kirkus Reviews), The Prisoner in His Palace grants us a behind-the-scenes look at history thats nearly impossible to put down...a mesmerizing glimpse into the final moments of a brutal tyrants life (BookPage).

The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid, Bardenwerper Will