Occupational Hazards

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'Devastating' - The Sunday Times

'Absolutely absorbing' - Ken Loach

By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, then a young British diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority's deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency.

Occupational Hazards is Rory Stewart's inside account of the attempt to rebuild a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insurmountable difficulties encountered. It reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers, a rare and compelling insight that remains just as important today.

'An extraordinarily vivid tale' - The Guardian

'Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative' - The Observer

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781035052172
Published: May 2024

Number of pages: 464
Width: 131 mm
Height: 198 mm
Depth: 28 mm

Publisher: Pan Macmillan