Reminiscent of the best war literature, such as John Hersey’s Hiroshima, Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and Michael Kelly’s Martyr’s Day. –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.