 | The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission by Lawrence F. Kaplan
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £0.25 The original neoconservative case for war. Short, powerful and a scathing critique of conseravtive realism and wishful liberal containment.
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 | The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq by Kenneth M. Pollack
Buy used from: £0.01 The most important pre-invasion book. A former CIA analyst and liberal foreign policy analyst gives the case for removing Saddam. Don't listen to anyone who hasn't read it.
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 | The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs and the Iraqis in Iraq by Fouad Ajami
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.48 Probably the best book on Iraq I have read. Weaving together history, politics, culture, the Arab mind, and the impact of the democracy project in Iraq, and the region.
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 | Allies: The US, Britain, Europe and the War in Iraq by William Shawcross
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 The unsurpassed analysis and retelling of the run up to war and its immediate aftermath.
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 | Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael Gordon
Buy new: £21.25 / Used from: £2.29 Simply the best and most comprehensive account of the war. Ideology, politics, military -- it includes everything. Much better than "Fiasco".
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 | The Assassins' Gate by George Packer
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.01 The second best account. The arguments for war, the build up to war, the war itself and the aftermath. No partisan axe to grind.
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 | The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End by Peter Galbraith
Buy new: £5.65 / Used from: £2.37 Very good partisan critique, from a friend of the Kurds, on the catastrophe of the occupation and American incompetence. Bad on solution though (he favours partition and withdrawal)
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 | Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas Ricks
Buy used from: £3.44 Damning indictment of the US planners from 2003-2006. Partisan but comprehensive.
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 | The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace by Ali A. Allawi
Buy new: £18.04 / Used from: £4.94 A rather remarkable book by a great anti-Saddam Iraqi patriot, who supported regime-change, but has since become disillusioned and exiled again.
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 | Occupational Hazards: My Time Governing in Iraq by Rory Stewart
Buy new: £6.47 / Used from: £2.84 Early post-war Iraq from a British soldier turned diplomat. Illuminating and depressing.
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 | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Buy used from: £0.01 Very fair and evenhanded look at the bungled disaster of occupation after 2003.
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 | The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick Cockburn
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £2.65 A disgusting Marxist screed by a apologist for communism, the IRA , Saddam Hussein and Islamic terrorism. Cockburn is from a family of apologists who hate the West and support its "resisters".
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 | The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - a New Approach by James A. Baker
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £0.01 The most overrated "realist" nonsense ever penned. Bush rightly binned it and brought in General Petraeus, Jack Keane, HR McMaster and Frederick Kagan - who all authored the miracle 'surge'.
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 | The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind by Mahdi Obeidi
Buy new: £8.09 / Used from: £0.01 No WMD's in Iraq? Saddam wasn't a permanent threat? Yeah...right. Read this for a little "inconvenient truth".
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 | Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions by John Agresto
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £3.28 A neocon who is trying to jump ship criticizes the war. A pity he didn't wait until 2008 to publish, after the "surge" by David Petraeus and the Anbar Awakening. Oops!
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 | The Connection: How Al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America by Stephen F. Hayes
Buy new: £12.11 / Used from: £0.06 That pesky "non existent" Saddam-Al Qaeda connection, that the anti-war Left are always denying. Oh well....another leftist myth done with.
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 | War And Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism by Douglas Feith
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £2.60 A thoroughly documented inside account of the GWOT from a controversial player. It destroys many myths and lies of the Left and the media.
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 | Tell Me How This Ends: General David Petraeus and the Search for a Way out of Iraq. by Linda Robinson
Buy new: £11.37 / Used from: £7.53 An insider account of the "surge". David Petraeus and Ray Odierno will be remembered as heroes in generations to come.
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 | Saddam's Secrets: How an Iraqi General Defied and Survived Saddam Hussein by General Georges Sada
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.50 Another superb and much overlooked book about Saddam, his regime and its arsenal of illegal weapons.
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