The Unravelling. High Hopes And Missed Opportunities In Iraq

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: Reprint

Description: 382 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw as a wrongful war, she signed up, expecting to be gone for months. Instead, her time in Iraq spanned a decade, and became a personal odyssey so unlikely that it could be a work of fiction. Quickly made civilian representative of the CPA in Kirkuk, and then political advisor to General Odierno, Sky became valued for her outspoken voice and the unique perspective she offered as an outsider. In her intimate, clear-eyed memoir of her time in Iraq, a young British woman among the men of the US military, Emma Sky provides a vivid portrait of this most controversial of interventions, exploring how and why the Iraq project failed.

ISBN: 9781782392606