Baghdad’s Ruling Cliques
Keith Kyle, 15 August 1991
The Iraqi Revolution of 1958: The Old Social Classes Revisited
edited by Robert Fernea and William Roger Louis.
Tauris, 232 pp., £35, May 1991,1 85043 318 6 Show More
edited by Robert Fernea and William Roger Louis.
Tauris, 232 pp., £35, May 1991,
Instant Empire: Saddam Hussein’s Ambition for Iraq
by Simon Henderson.
Mercury House, 271 pp., £8.99, June 1991,1 56279 007 2 Show More
by Simon Henderson.
Mercury House, 271 pp., £8.99, June 1991,
Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography
by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi.
Brassey, 307 pp., £17.95, April 1991,0 08 041326 9 Show More
by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi.
Brassey, 307 pp., £17.95, April 1991,
The Gulf Between Us: The Gulf War and Beyond
edited by Victoria Brittain.
Virago, 186 pp., £5.99, June 1991,1 85381 386 9 Show More
edited by Victoria Brittain.
Virago, 186 pp., £5.99, June 1991,
Under Siege in Kuwait: A Survivor’s Story
by Jadranka Porter.
Gollancz, 250 pp., £4.99, July 1991,9780575051850 Show More
by Jadranka Porter.
Gollancz, 250 pp., £4.99, July 1991,
“... Iraq, is told in Instant Empire by Simon Henderson of the Financial Times and in Saddam Hussein by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi, an Israeli and a Finnish academic. Both books honestly admit difficulties over sources and make efforts to overcome them; and both can be recommended for the interim purposes for which they are intended. Both usually remember ... ”
