The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End - Hardcover

Galbraith, Peter W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743294238 ISBN 13: 9780743294232

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2006

Synopsis

A former member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee documents what he believes to be the failed American war in Iraq, detailing how the country has split into a Kurdish independent state, strict Islamic regions, and a chaotic Sunni area.

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Review

"Peter Galbraith's "The End of Iraq" is a fascinating tale in its own right as well as a vital contribution to the autopsy on the worst of American wars."
-- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

"Peter Galbraith's The End of Iraq is a fascinating tale in its own right as well as a vital contribution to the autopsy on the worst of American wars."
-- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

"Peter Galbraith has seen, with balance and clarity, the whole arc of America's tragic and mismanaged relationship with Iraq. This is an essential book as the debate on what to do in Iraq continues to grow in the United States."
-- Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

"The perceptive and well-informed Galbraith has it just about right in his litany of miscalculations and mismanagements.... Fast paced."
-- Foreign Affairs

"Excellent and indispensable.... Peter Galbraith's learned and insightful book is literally a must-read for those who wish to place the Iraq war in historical context and to understand the forces at play in what may well be the dissolution of Iraq."
-- Phillip G. Henderson, National Catholic Reporter

"Galbraith's book is important because, as much as any American, he has lived the Iraq tragedy up close and personal."
-- David Ignatius, The Washington Post Book World

"Galbraith, a leading commentator on Iraq...presents a clear-eyed and persuasive case against the Bush administration's nation-building project there."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred)

"[Galbraith's] account of the blunders and the missed opportunities is by a very long way the best one published so far.... Here at last is a book written by someone who both knows about Iraq and cares about it.... How one wishes that its author had been listened to in the first place."
-- Christopher Hitchens, The Washington Times

About the Author

Peter W. Galbraith, a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia, is the senior diplomatic fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Alan Sklar is the winner of several AudioFile Earphones Awards and a multiple finalist for the APA's prestigious Audie Award. Named a Best Voice of 2009 by AudioFile magazine, his work has twice earned him a Booklist Editors' Choice Award, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and Audiobook of the Year by ForeWord magazine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743294238
• ISBN 13: 9780743294232
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 260