Voices from Iraq: A People's History, 2003-2009
Mark Kukis
Abstract
Featuring the testimony of close to seventy Iraqis from all walks of life, this book builds a chronological history unmatched for its insight and revelations. Here is a history of the war in Iraq as told entirely by Iraqis living through the United States invasion and occupation. Beginning in 2003, this narrative includes the experiential accounts of civilians, politicians, former dissidents, insurgents, and militiamen. Iraqis offering firsthand stories range from onetime Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to resistance fighters speaking on the condition of anonymity. Divided into five parts, these in ... More
Featuring the testimony of close to seventy Iraqis from all walks of life, this book builds a chronological history unmatched for its insight and revelations. Here is a history of the war in Iraq as told entirely by Iraqis living through the United States invasion and occupation. Beginning in 2003, this narrative includes the experiential accounts of civilians, politicians, former dissidents, insurgents, and militiamen. Iraqis offering firsthand stories range from onetime Prime Minister Ayad Allawi to resistance fighters speaking on the condition of anonymity. Divided into five parts, these interviews recount the 2003 invasion; Iraq's gradual slide into chaos from 2004 to 2005; the start of a new order in 2006; the rise of open sectarian violence over the next two years; and the effort since 2008 to reconstruct a society from relative calm. Each section includes interviews grouped into themes, with brief epilogues for the participants. Not since Studs Terkel's The Good War has a book captured so acutely the human consequences of a conflict we are still struggling to understand. This book makes utterly vivid the meaning and legacy of the Iraq war.
Keywords:
conflict,
Iraq war,
civilians,
Iraq,
dissidents,
insurgents,
militiamen,
resistance fighters,
invasion,
United States
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780231156929 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 |
DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231156929.001.0001 |
