Author: Eric Maddox Publisher: HarpPeren ISBN: 9780061714481 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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When the shocking announcement of Saddam Hussein's capture was made on December 14, 2003, it brought to a close one of the most intensive manhunts in history. Army Staff Sergeant Eric Maddox, the young soldier who had spearheaded the search, was among the few people not surprised by the news. In his final moments in Iraq—having just broken the detainee who provided him with a map to Saddam's location through psychologically subtle, nonviolent interrogation—Maddox had requested his team undertake one last mission. The rest is history. Bringing to light the full story of this remarkable successful mission and the hero whose daring, intelligence, instinct, and determination made it possible, Capturing Saddam is a fascinating, unvarnished chronicle of war.
Author: Steve Russell Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451665121 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 525
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Presents a description by a lieutenant colonel in the 1st Battalion, 22nd infantry regiment of the strategies and resources used in the hunt for Saddam Hussein, which resulted in his capture in December of 2003 in Operation Red Dawn.
Author: Robin Moore Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780312936679 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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How Did We Get Him? This authoritative and gripping account takes readers into the real and personal story of the United States forces in Iraq, and their successful maneuvers in capturing one of the most vicious dictators of our time. Hunting Down Saddam contains up-to-the-minute material and provides never-before-heard accounts of the triumphs and frustrations, strategies and attacks, of those who put their lives at risk to track down Saddam Hussein. *The first book to tell the whole story of the pursuit of Saddam, from prewar to his capture *Candid accounts straight from the soldiers on the frontline, which have not been sanitized or filtered through the media, the military, or the Pentagon *Exclusive interviews with key military leaders, including Colonel "Smokin' Joe" Anderson, Commanding Officer of the 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles), who led the attack on Saddam's sons Action-packed and controversial, Hunting Down Saddam teems with inside information. Best-selling author Robin Moore gets the real story from these fighting men as only he can. The capture of Saddam Hussein is the defining event for this generation's military and now it is fully detailed in this riveting book.
Author: John Nixon (Middle East expert) Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0399575812 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 257
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The first man to conduct a prolonged interrogation of Saddam Hussein after his capture explains why preconceived ideas about the dictator led Washington policymakers and the Bush White House astray.
Author: Simone Payment Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc ISBN: 9781404202801 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 52
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Looks at America's search for deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, who was located on December 13, 2003 hiding in a hole in the ground on a small farm near Tikrit, Iraq.
Author: Eric Maddox Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006171447X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 287
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A behind-the-scenes chronicle of the search for Saddam Hussein offers a moment-by-moment narrative account that also profiles the author's non-violent, psychological interrogation method.
Author: Will Bardenwerper Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1501117858 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 272
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In the tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s 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, Saddam’s 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 media’s 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 that’s nearly impossible to put down…a mesmerizing glimpse into the final moments of a brutal tyrant’s life” (BookPage).
Author: Bruce P. Montgomery Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1498556981 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 259
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The Seizure of Saddam Hussein's Archive of Atrocity examines the capture of the Baathist security files and the discovery of an invaluable Iraqi Jewish archive amid the Kurdish uprising and the US-led invasion of Iraq. The events ignited a fierce struggle for the files, which documented Saddam Hussein’s vast humanitarian crimes. The various battles to control the memory of Saddam Hussein's genocidal regime and reclaim Jewish patrimony reflected Iraq's inability to confront its past. The author examines these controversies, arguing that Iraq's failure to face its totalitarian history has condemned it to a future of vengeance.
Author: Lisa Blaydes Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691211752 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 376
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A new account of modern Iraqi politics that overturns the conventional wisdom about its sectarian divisions How did Iraq become one of the most repressive dictatorships of the late twentieth century? The conventional wisdom about Iraq's modern political history is that the country was doomed by its diverse social fabric. But in State of Repression, Lisa Blaydes challenges this belief by showing that the country's breakdown was far from inevitable. At the same time, she offers a new way of understanding the behavior of other authoritarian regimes and their populations. Drawing on archival material captured from the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's ruling Ba'th Party in the wake of the 2003 US invasion, Blaydes illuminates the complexities of political life in Iraq, including why certain Iraqis chose to collaborate with the regime while others worked to undermine it. She demonstrates that, despite the Ba'thist regime's pretensions to political hegemony, its frequent reliance on collective punishment of various groups reinforced and cemented identity divisions. At the same time, a series of costly external shocks to the economy—resulting from fluctuations in oil prices and Iraq's war with Iran—weakened the capacity of the regime to monitor, co-opt, coerce, and control factions of Iraqi society. In addition to calling into question the common story of modern Iraqi politics, State of Repression offers a new explanation of why and how dictators repress their people in ways that can inadvertently strengthen regime opponents.
Author: Eric Maddox
Author: Steve Russell
Author: Robin Moore
Author: John Nixon (Middle East expert)
Author: Simone Payment
Author: Eric Maddox
Author: Will Bardenwerper
Author: Bruce P. Montgomery
Author: Mark E. Green
Author: Lisa Blaydes