Red zone : five bloody years in Baghdad
Poole, Oliver200803UU
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An extraordinary account of Telegraph Baghdad bureau chief Oliver Pooleâ s five years covering Iraq; how the burgeoning Sunni-Shia civil war changed life for ordinary Iraqis and British and US troops; in particular, Ahmed Ali, Pooleâ s interpreter, forced to flee to the US when his part Shia, part Sunni, family were engulfed by violence.
Main title:
Red zone : five bloody years in Baghdad / by Oliver Poole.
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Imprint:
London : Reportage Press : [distributor] Littlehampton Book Services (LBS), 2008.
Collation:
336 p. ; 22x14 cm.
Notes:
Paperback.
Biography/History:
35 year old Oliver Poole first crossed into Iraq in March 2003, from Kuwait, as a reporter, â embeddedâ in the back of an American armoured vehicle. Three weeks later, his unit had fought their way to Baghdad. His book on the 2003 Gulf War, Black Knights: on the Bloody Road to Baghdad, sold 29,000 copies. But when Poole returned to London, he was haunted by the dead: had the bloodshed been worthwhile? Eighteen months later, as the Daily Telegraphâ s Baghdad Bureau Chief, he came back to find a country racked by suicide bombs and the burgeoning horror of the Sunni-Shia civil war. There he met Ahmed, his closest friend in Baghdad. For the next two years, they worked out of the Baghdad hotel suite where Poole lived until Pooleâ s hotel-home was blown up and Ahmedâ s family, part Shia, part Sunni, tainted by their international connections, became engulfed by the violence. Born and brought up in London, Poole was educated at Oxford University. After working at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, he joined the Telegraph Group in 1999 and was appointed West Coast of America correspondent in September 2001. He now lives in Hackney, east London.
ISBN:
9780955830259 (pbk)0955830257 (pbk)
Dewey class:
956.7
Language:
English
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BRN:
3979423
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