Musings On Iraq Book Reviews By Topic

Pre-Ottoman Era

Christianity in Iraq by Suha Rassam

Iraq, A History by John Robertson

The Kurds, A Modern History by Michael Gunter

Ottoman Era

An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes & The Revolutionary Movement In Iraq by Dale Stahl

Christianity in Iraq by Suha Rassam

Dictatorship, Imperialism & Chaos, Iraq since 1989 by Thabit Abdullah

Iraq in Turmoil, Historical Perspectives of Dr. Ali al-Wardi, From the Ottoman Empire to King Feisal by Youssef Aboul-Enein

The Kurds, A Modern History by Michael Gunter

Mosul Before Iraq, Like Bees Making Five-Sided Cells by Sarah Shields

British Mandate

An Analysis of Hanna Batatu’s The Old Social Classes & The Revolutionary Movement In Iraq by Dale Stahl

Christianity in Iraq by Suha Rassam

Churchill’s Folly, How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq by Christopher Catherwood

The Creation of Iraq 1914-1921 by Reeva Spector Simon Eleanor Tejirian Eds.

Dictatorship, Imperialism & Chaos, Iraq since 1989 by Thabit Abdullah

Familiar Futures, Time, Selfhood, And Sovereignty In Iraq by Sara Pursley

Gertrude Bell And Iraq, A Life and Legacy by Paul Collins and Charles Tripp, Eds.

Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied by Toby Dodge

Iraq in Turmoil, Historical Perspectives of Dr. Ali al-Wardi, From the Ottoman Empire to King Feisal by Youssef Aboul-Enein

Gertrude Bell, Explorer of the Middle East by Heather Lehr Wagner

The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned An Ally In The Middle East by David Phillips

The Kurds, A Modern History by Michael Gunter

Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope by Michael Gunter

Reclaiming Iraq, The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State by Abbas Kadhim

The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941 by Mohammed Tarbush

State and Society in Iraq, Citizenship under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratiziation by Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako and Fadi Dawood, Eds.

Supremacy And Oil, Iraq, Turkey, and the Anglo-American World Order, 1918-1930 by William Stivers

The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq by R.S. Stafford

Monarchy Era

Familiar Futures, Time, Selfhood, And Sovereignty In Iraq by Sara Pursley

‘Independent Iraq’ The Monarchy & British Influence, 1941-1958 by Matthew Elliot

Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum

Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope by Michael Gunter

Rashid Ali al-Gailani, the Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941 by Dr Walid Hamdi

Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam by Johan Franzen

The Role of the Military In Politics, A case study of Iraq to 1941 by Mohammed Tarbush

Ropes Of Sand, America’s Failure in the Middle East by Wilbur Crane Eveland

State and Society in Iraq, Citizenship under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratiziation by Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako and Fadi Dawood, Eds.

The Tragedy of the Assyrian Minority in Iraq by R.S. Stafford

1941 Anglo-Iraq War

Blood, Oil and the Axis, The Allied Resistance Against A Fascist State In Iraq and the Levant, 1941 by John Broich

Iraq 1941, The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad by Robert Lyman

Iraq And Syria 1941, The Politics and Strategy of the Second World War by Geoffrey Warner

Persian Gulf Command, A History of the Second World War In Iran and Iraq by Ashley Jackson

Rashid Ali al-Gailani, the Nationalist Movement in Iraq 1939-1941 by Dr Walid Hamdi

Qasim Era

Christianity in Iraq by Suha Rassam

Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam by Johan Franzen

State and Society in Iraq, Citizenship under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratiziation by Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako and Fadi Dawood, Eds.

Arif Era

Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam by Johan Franzen

1967 Arab-Israeli War

Hawker Hunters At War, Iraq and Jordan 1958-1967 by Tom Cooper and Patricia Salti

Bakr Era

The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned An Ally In The Middle East by David Phillips

Red Star Over Iraq, Iraqi Communism Before Saddam by Johan Franzen

State and Society in Iraq, Citizenship under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratiziation by Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako and Fadi Dawood, Eds.

Saddam Era

The Ba’thification of Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s Totalitarianism by Aaron Faust

Compulsion In religion, Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies In Iraq by Samuel Helfont

The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned An Ally In The Middle East by David Phillips

Iraq, In the Eye of the Storm by Dilip Hiro

Killing Hope, U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum

Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope by Michael Gunter

Saddam Hussein’s Ba’th Party, Inside an Authoritarian Regime by Joseph Sassoon

The Saddam Tapes, The Inner Workings of a Tyrant’s Regime 1978-2001 by Kevin Woods, David Palkki and Mark Stout

State and Society in Iraq, Citizenship under Occupation, Dictatorship and Democratiziation by Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako and Fadi Dawood, Eds.

The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History With Documents by Robert Brigham Ed.

Iran-Iraq War

The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux

The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 by Efraim Karsh

Iran-Iraq War, The Lion of Babylon, 1980-1988 by Anthony Tucker-Jones

The Iran-Iraq War, Volume 1: The Battle for Khuzestan, September 1980-May 1982 by E.R. Hooton, Tom Cooper, and Farzin Nadimi

The Iran-Iraq War Volume 2: Iran Strikes back, June 1982-December 1986 by E.R. Hooton, Tom Cooper and Farzin Nadimi

The Iran-Iraq War Volume 3: Iraq’s Triumph by E.R. Hooton, Tom Cooper and Farzin Nadimi

The Iran-Iraq War, Volume 4: The Forgotten Fronts by E.R. Hooton, Tom Cooper and Farzin Nadimi

Iraqi Mirages, The Dassault Mirage Family In Service With The Iraqi Air Force, 1981-1988 by Tom Cooper and Milos Sipos

Vanguard of the Imam, Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards by Afshon Ostovar

Invasion of Kuwait/Gulf War

Bradley vs BMP, Desert Storm 1991 by Mike Guardia

The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein by Alex Roberto Hybel and Justin Matthew Kaufman

Desert Storm, Volume 1: The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait And Operation Desert Shield 1990-1991 by E.R. Hooton and Tom Cooper

from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq by John Ballard

the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, Religion, Identity and Otherness in the Analysis of War and Conflict by Hamdi Hassan

Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope by Michael Gunter

M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural, Operation Desert Storm 1991 by Steven Zaloga

The Saddam Tapes, The Inner Workings of a Tyrant’s Regime 1978-2001 by Kevin Woods, David Palkki and Mark Stout

US Invasion Of Iraq

America at the Crossroads, Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukuyama

The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein by Alex Roberto Hybel and Justin Matthew Kaufman

Bush At War by Bob Woodward

The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson

from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq by John Ballard

Hubris, The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn

Iraq’s Future: The aftermath of regime change by Toby Dodge

Leap of Faith, Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy by Michael Mazarr

Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account Of The Decision To Invade Iraq by Bob Woodward

The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary Executive Summary by Chilcot Report

The Road to Iraq, The Making of a Neoconservative War by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog by Salam Pax

Shaping the Plan for Operation Iraqi Freedom, The Role of Military Intelligence Assessments by Gregory Hooker

Special Operations Forces in Iraq by Leigh Neville

Special Operations in Iraq by Mike Ryan

State of War, The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration by James Risen

Target Basra, The High-Octane Story of the Royal Marine Commandos In Iraq by Mike Rossiter

Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009 by Mark Kukis

Wanting War: Why the Bush Administration Invaded Iraq by Jeffrey Record

US Occupation Of Iraq

Battle for Fallujah, Occupation, Resistance and Stalemate in the War in Iraq by Vincent Foulk

Battle For The City Of The Dead, In The Shadow of the Golden Dome, Najaf, August 2004 by Dick Camp

The Caliphate At War, Operational Realistic and Innovations of the Islamic State by Ahmed Hashim

Children of War, Voices Of Iraqi Refugees by Deborah Ellis

Christianity in Iraq by Suha Rassam

Compulsion In religion, Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies In Iraq by Samuel Helfont

Confronting Al Qaeda, The Sunni Awakening and American Strategy In Al Anbar by Martha Cottom and Joe Huseby with Bruno Baltodano

The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson

Fallujah Redux, The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle With Al-Qaeda by Daniel Green and William Mullen III

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure In Iraq by Thomas Ricks

from storm to Freedom, America’s Long War with Iraq by John Ballard

Illusions of Victory, The Anbar Awakening And The Rise Of The Islamic State by Carter Malkasian

Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance by Joel Rayburn

Iraq and Back, Inside The War To Win The Peace by Kim Olson

Iraq and the Politics of Oil, An Insider’s Perspective by Gary Vogler

Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism by Toby Dodge

Iraq’s Future: The aftermath of regime change by Toby Dodge

Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency by Ahmed Hashim

It Takes More than a Network, The Iraqi Insurgency and Organization Adaptation by Chad Serena

The Marines Take Anbar, The Four-Year Fight Against Al Qaeda by Richard Shultz Jr.

Nights In The Pink Motel, An American Strategist’s Pursuit of Peace in Iraq by Robert Earle

Oil and Democracy in Iraq by Robert Springbord, Ed.

Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq by Caroleen Marji Sayej

The Occupation of Iraq, Winning The War, Losing The Peace by Ali Allawi

Reconstructing Iraq’s Budgetary Institutions, Coalition State Building after Saddam by James Savage

The Report of the Iraq Inquiry, Executive Summary Executive Summary by Chilcot Report

Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog by Salam Pax

The Sheriff of Ramadi, Navy SEALs and the Winning of Anbar by Dick Couch

Special Operations Forces in Iraq by Leigh Neville

Squandered Victory, The American Occupation And The Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq by Larry Diamond

State of War, The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration by James Risen

The Struggle For iraq, A View from the Ground Up by Thomas Renahan

Target Basra, The High-Octane Story of the Royal Marine Commandos In Iraq by Mike Rossiter

U.S. Marines in Battle, An-Najaf August 2004 by Francis Kozlowski

The United States And Iraq Since 1990: A Brief History With Documents by Robert Brigham Ed.

Voices From Iraq, A People’s History, 2003-2009 by Mark Kukis

Why Do You Kill: The Untold Story of the Iraqi Resistance by Jurgen Todenhofer

Post-US Occupation Iraq

The Caliphate At War, Operational Realistic and Innovations of the Islamic State by Ahmed Hashim

Fallujah Redux, The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle With Al-Qaeda by Daniel Green and William Mullen III

The Great Betrayal, How America Abandoned An Ally In The Middle East by David Phillips

Iraq After America, Strongmen, Sectarians, Resistance by Joel Rayburn

Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism by Toby Dodge

M1A1 in Iraqi Service by SABOT Publications

Patriotic Ayatollahs, Nationalism In Post-Saddam Iraq by Caroleen Marji Sayej

Quicksilver War, Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict by William Harris