 | The War Over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission by Lawrence F. Kaplan
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $0.01 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: $6.40 / Used from: $3.32 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 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 R. Gordon
Buy used from: $0.01 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: America in Iraq by George Packer
Buy used from: $0.01 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 W. Galbraith
Buy used from: $0.01 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 E. Ricks
Buy used from: $0.32 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 Dr. Ali A. Allawi
Buy new: $21.84 / Used from: $1.20 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 used from: $15.75 Early post-war Iraq from a British soldier turned diplomat. Illuminating and depressing.
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 | Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone (Vintage) by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.40 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: $11.84 / Used from: $2.69 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 The Iraq Study Group
Buy new: $10.95 / 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: $18.96 / 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: $25.95 / Used from: $0.84 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 used from: $0.01 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 J. Feith
Buy used from: $1.50 A thoroughly documented inside account of the GWOT from a controversial player. It destroys many myths and lies of the Left and the media. Will be studied by historians for generations.
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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: $20.40 / Used from: $0.01 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 by Georges Hormuz Sada
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $0.09 Another superb and much overlooked book about Saddam, his regime and its arsenal of illegal weapons.
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