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The insider
trapped in Saddam's brutal regime
By Bashir, Ala & Sunnan,Ì„ Lars Sigurd
- ISBN
- 978-0-34911-935-9
- Publisher
- London : Abacus, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 16, 2006
As Saddam Hussein's personal physician, Bashir had unique access to the dictator and his family for 20 turbulent years, and in this darkly comic memoir, he chronicles his time as Hussein's "unwilling confidant," taking the reader into presidential palaces, blood-spattered operating rooms and the streets of sanction-era Baghdad. Bashir grounds Hussein's reign in the context of Mesopotamia's chaotic past before letting loose with...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
