The Fall of Baghdad

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.