The Achilles Trap
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From the Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of Ghost
Wars, the inside story of America's long and ruinous relationship
with Saddam HusseinThe Achilles Trap masterfully untangles the
people, ploys of power and geopolitics that led to America's
disastrous war with Iraq and, for the first time, details America's
fundamental miscalculations during its ruinous, decades-long
relationship with Saddam Hussein.Beginning with Saddam's rise to
power in 1979 and the birth of Iraq's secret nuclear weapons
programme, Steve Coll traces Saddam's motives through understanding
his inner circle. He brings to life the diplomats, scientists,
family members and generals who had no choice but to defer to their
leader - a leader directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds
of thousands of Iraqis, as well as the torture or imprisonment of
many more. This was a man whose reasoning was impossible to reduce
to a simple explanation, and the CIA and successive presidential
administrations failed to grasp critical nuances in his paranoia,
resentments and inconsistencies - even when the stakes were
incredibly high.Using unpublished and underreported sources,
interviews with surviving participants, and Saddam's own
transcripts and audio files, The Achilles Trap is a remarkable
picture of a dictator who was convinced the world was out to get
him and acted accordingly. A work of great historical significance,
it is the definitive account of how corruptions of power, lies of
diplomacy and vanity - on both sides - led to avoidable errors of
statecraft: ones that would enact immeasurable human suffering and
forever change our political landscape.
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Allen Lane ,
Steve Coll
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Allen Lane,
Steve Coll
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Slovart
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Slovart
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