Book Reviews By Topic

Pre-Ottoman Era

 

Baghdad, City of Peace, City of Blood, A History In Thirteen Centuries by Justin Marozzi

 

Banking On Baghdad, Inside Iraq’s 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict by Edwin Black

 

Christianity in Iraq by Suha Rassam

 

The Greatness That Was Babylon by H.W.F. Saggs

 

Iraq, A History by John Robertson

 

The Kurds, A Modern History by Michael Gunter

 

The Revolt Of Africans Slaves In Iraq in the 3rd/9th Century by Alexandre Popovic

 

A Short History of Iraq, Second Edition by Thabit Abdullah

 

Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation by William Polk

 

when baghdad ruled the muslim world, the rise and fall of islam’s greatest dynasty by Hugh Kennedy

 

Ottoman Era

 

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

 

Arab War Lords and Iraqi Star Gazers, Second Edition, Gertrude Bell’s The Arab of Mesopotamia edited by Paul Rich

 

Baghdad, City of Peace, City of Blood, A History In Thirteen Centuries by Justin Marozzi

 

Banking On Baghdad, Inside Iraq’s 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict by Edwin Black

 

Battles On The Tigris, The Mesopotamian Campaign Of The First World War by Ron Wilcox

 

Christianity in Iraq by Suha Rassam

 

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

 

Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923 by Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh

 

The Industrialization Of Iraq, Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, No. 5 by Kathleen Langley

 

Iraq and Gertrude Bell’s The Arab of Mesopotamia Edited by Paul Rich

 

Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920s to the Present Edited by Amatzia Baram Achim Rohde and Ronen Zeidel

 

Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny by Reeva Spector Simon

 

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

 

Iraq In World War I, From Ottoman Rule to British Conquest by Mohammad Gholi Majd

 

The Kurdish National Movement, Its Origins And Development by Wadie Jwaideh

 

The Kurds, A Modern History by Michael Gunter

 

The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology by Samira Haj

 

The Modern History of Iraq by Phebe Marr

 

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

 

The Shi’is Of Iraq by Yitzhak Nakash

 

A Short History of Iraq, Second Edition by Thabit Abdullah

 

Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation by William Polk

 

The War In The Cradle of The World by Eleanor Franklin Egan

 

When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 by Charles Townshend

 

When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East, Iraq and Syria, 1946-63 by Matthieu Rey

 

British Mandate

 

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

 

Assyrians in Modern Iraq, Negotiating Political and Cultural Space by Alda Benjamen

 

Britain In Iraq, Contriving King and Country by Peter Sluglett

 

Britain’s Informal Empire In The Middle East, A Case Study of Iraq 1929-1941 by Daniel Silverfarb

 

Cairo 1921, Ten Days That Made the Middle East by C. Brad Faught

 

The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies by Elie Kedourie

 

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.

 

Desert Queen, The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia by Janet Wallach

 

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

 

Empires of the Sand, The Struggle For Mastery In The Middle East 1789-1923 by Efraim Karsh and Inari Karsh

 

Enemy On The Euphrates, The Battle For Iraq 1914-1921 by Ian Rutledge

 

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

 

Future of Iraq, Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division? by Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield

 

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

 

A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp

 

Imaging The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict In Iraq by Harith Al-Qarawee

 

The Industrialization Of Iraq, Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, No. 5 by Kathleen Langley

 

The Ins & Outs Of Mesopotamia by Thomas Lyell

 

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

 

Iraq, 1900 To 1950, A Political, Social, and Economic History by Stephen Longrigg

 

Iraq and Gertrude Bell’s The Arab of Mesopotamia Edited by Paul Rich

 

Iraq and Imperialism, Thomas Lyell’s The Ins and Outs of Mesopotamia Edited by Paul Rich

 

Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920s to the Present Edited by Amatzia Baram Achim Rohde and Ronen Zeidel

 

Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny by Reeva Spector Simon

 

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

 

Iraq, People, History, Politics by Gareth Stansfield

 

Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship By Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett

 

Iraq’s Burdens, Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment by Abbas Alnasrawi

 

Iraq’s Democratic Moment by Foulath Hadid

 

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 Kurdish National Movement, Its Origins And Development by Wadie Jwaideh

 

The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970 by Edgar O’Ballance

 

The Kurds, A Modern History by Michael Gunter

 

Kurds In Iraq, The Past, Present and Future by Kerim Yildiz

 

Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope by Michael Gunter

 

The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology by Samira Haj

 

Memories of State, Politics, History, and Collective Identity In Modern Iraq by Eric Davis

 

The Modern History of Iraq by Phebe Marr

New Babylonians, A History Of Jews In Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin

 

The Other Iraq, Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq by Orit Bashkin

 

People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan by Gerard Chaliand editor

 

Pride And Power, A Modern History Of Iraq by Johan Franzen

 

A Quest in the Middle Est, Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq by Liora Lukitz

 

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

 

Relations Of The People to The Land In Southern Iraq by Fuad Baali

 

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

 

The Shi’is Of Iraq by Yitzhak Nakash

 

A Short History of Iraq, Second Edition by Thabit Abdullah

 

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

 

Three Kings In Baghdad, The Tragedy Of Iraq’s Monarchy by Gerald De Gaury

 

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

 

Turkey, the US and Iraq by William Hale

 

U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq Michael Eisenstadt and Eric Mathewson Editors

 

Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation by William Polk

 

When God Made Hell, The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921 by Charles Townshend

 

When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East, Iraq and Syria, 1946-63 by Matthieu Rey

 

Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 19310-1970 by Milos Sipos and Tom Cooper

 

Monarchy Era

 

Assyrians in Modern Iraq, Negotiating Political and Cultural Space by Alda Benjamen

 

Britain’s Informal Empire In The Middle East, A Case Study of Iraq 1929-1941 by Daniel Silverfarb

 

Britain’s 2 Wars With Iraq 1941 1991 by Raghid El-Solh

 

The Chatham House Version and other Middle-Eastern Studies by Elie Kedourie

 

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

 

The Farhud, Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust by Edwin Black

 

Future of Iraq, Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division? by Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield

 

Guests of the Sheik, An Ethnography Of An Iraqi Village by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

 

A History of Iraq by Charles Tripp

 

Imaging The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict In Iraq by Harith Al-Qarawee

 

Independent Iraq 1932-1958, A Study in Iraqi Politics by Majid Khadduri

 

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

 

The Industrialization Of Iraq, Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs, No. 5 by Kathleen Langley

 

Iraq, 1900 To 1950, A Political, Social, and Economic History by Stephen Longrigg

 

Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-1970 by Sa’ad Jawad

 

Iraq Between Occupations, Perspectives from 1920s to the Present Edited by Amatzia Baram Achim Rohde and Ronen Zeidel

 

Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny by Reeva Spector Simon

 

Iraq, People, History, Politics by Gareth Stansfield

 

Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship By Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett

 

Iraq Under General Nuri, My Recollections of Nuri al-Said, 1954-58 by Waldemar Gallman

 

Iraq’s Burdens, Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment by Abbas Alnasrawi

 

Iraq’s Democratic Moment by Foulath Hadid

 

Iraq’s Last Jews, Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon Edited by Tamar Morad, Dniis Shasha and Robert Shasha

 

Iraqi Jews, A History of Mass Exodus by Abbas Shiblak

 

The Iraqi Revolution Of 1958, The Old Social Classes Revisited Edited by Robert Fernea and Wm. Roger Louis

 

Iraqi Statesman, A portray of Mohammed Fadhel Jamali by Harry Almond

 

Iraqi Women, Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

 

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

 

The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970 by Edgar O’Ballance

 

Kurds In Iraq, The Past, Present and Future by Kerim Yildiz

 

Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope by Michael Gunter

 

Last Days in Babylon, The Exile of Iraq’s Jews, the Story of My Family by Marina Benjamin

 

The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology by Samira Haj

 

Memories of State, Politics, History, and Collective Identity In Modern Iraq by Eric Davis

 

Missions Accomplished? The United States and Iraq since World War I by Peter Hahn

 

The Modern History of Iraq by Phebe Marr

 

My Memoirs, Half a Century of the History of Iraq and the Arab Cause by Tawfiq Al-Suwaydi

 

The National Income of Iraq 1953-1961 by K. Haseeb

 

New Babylonians, A History Of Jews In Modern Iraq by Orit Bashkin

 

Once Upon A Time In Iraq by Basil Balian

 

Operation Babylon, The Story Of The Rescue Of The Jews Of Iraq by Shlomo Hillel

 

The Other Iraq, Pluralism and Culture in Hashemite Iraq by Orit Bashkin

 

People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan by Gerard Chaliand editor

 

A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004 by Ilario Salucci

 

Pride And Power, A Modern History Of Iraq by Johan Franzen

 

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

 

The Reckoning, Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein by Sandra Mackey

 

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

 

A Reed Shaken by the Wind, Travels among the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Gavin Maxwell

 

Relations Of The People to The Land In Southern Iraq by Fuad Baali

 

Return to the Marshes, Lief with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Gavin Young

 

The Role Of Government In The Industrialization Of Iraq 1950-1965 by Ferhang Jalal

 

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

 

The Shi’is Of Iraq by Yitzhak Nakash

 

Shi’ism and Social Protest edited by Juan Cole and Nikki Keddie

 

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

 

Struggle For Kirkuk, The Rise Of Hussein, Oil, And The Death Of Tolerance In Iraq by Henry Astarjian

 

Three Kings In Baghdad, The Tragedy Of Iraq’s Monarchy by Gerald De Gaury

 

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

 

Transnational Shia Politics, Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf by Laurence Louer

 

U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq Michael Eisenstadt and Eric Mathewson Editors

 

Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation by William Polk

 

When Parliaments Ruled the Middle East, Iraq and Syria, 1946-63 by Matthieu Rey

 

Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 19310-1970 by Milos Sipos and Tom Cooper

 

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

 

Britain’s 2 Wars With Iraq 1941 1991 by Raghid El-Solh

 

The Farhud, Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust by Edwin Black

 

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

 

Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny by Reeva Spector Simon

 

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

 

Iraq Between the Two World Wars, The Militarist Origins of Tyranny by Reeva Spector Simon

 

Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship By Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett

 

Iraq’s Burdens, Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment by Abbas Alnasrawi

 

Iraq’s Last Jews, Stories of Daily Life, Upheaval, and Escape from Modern Babylon Edited by Tamar Morad, Dniis Shasha and Robert Shasha

 

The Iraqi Revolution Of 1958, The Old Social Classes Revisited Edited by Robert Fernea and Wm. Roger Louis

 

Iraqi Women, Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

 

Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan by Dana Adams Schmidt

 

The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970 by Edgar O’Ballance

 

The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology by Samira Haj

 

The National Income of Iraq 1953-1961 by K. Haseeb

 

A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004 by Ilario Salucci

 

Pride And Power, A Modern History Of Iraq by Johan Franzen

 

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

 

Republican ‘Iraq, A Study in ‘Iraqi Politics since the Revolution of 1958 by Majid Khadduri

 

The Role Of Government In The Industrialization Of Iraq 1950-1965 by Ferhang Jalal

 

The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq by Faleh Jabar

 

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

 

Struggle For Kirkuk, The Rise Of Hussein, Oil, And The Death Of Tolerance In Iraq by Henry Astarjian

 

Three Kings In Baghdad, The Tragedy Of Iraq’s Monarchy by Gerald De Gaury

 

Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 19310-1970 by Milos Sipos and Tom Cooper

 

Arif Era

 

Imaging The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict In Iraq by Harith Al-Qarawee

 

Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-1970 by Sa’ad Jawad

 

Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship By Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett

 

Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan by Dana Adams Schmidt

 

The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970 by Edgar O’Ballance

 

The Making of Iraq 1900-1963, Capital, Power and Ideology by Samira Haj

 

A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004 by Ilario Salucci

 

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

 

Republican ‘Iraq, A Study in ‘Iraqi Politics since the Revolution of 1958 by Majid Khadduri

 

The Role Of Government In The Industrialization Of Iraq 1950-1965 by Ferhang Jalal

 

The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq by Faleh Jabar

 

1967 Arab-Israeli War

 

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

 

Wings of Iraq, Volume 1: The Iraqi Air Force, 19310-1970 by Milos Sipos and Tom Cooper

 

Bakr Era

 

Culture, History & Ideology in the Formation of Ba’thist Iraq, 1968-89 by Amatzia Baram

 

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

 

Imaging The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict In Iraq by Harith Al-Qarawee

 

Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-1970 by Sa’ad Jawad

 

Iraq Since 1958, From Revolution To Dictatorship By Marion Farouk-Sluglett and Peter Sluglett

 

Iraq’s Burdens, Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment by Abbas Alnasrawi

 

Iraqi Women, Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

 

The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970 by Edgar O’Ballance

 

Memories of State, Politics, History, and Collective Identity In Modern Iraq by Eric Davis

 

People Without A Country, The Kurds and Kurdistan by Gerard Chaliand editor

 

A People’s History Of Iraq, The Iraqi Communist Party, Workers’ Movements, and the Left 1924-2004 by Ilario Salucci

 

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

 

Return to the Marshes, Lief with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq by Gavin Young

 

Saddam, His Rise and Fall by Con Coughlin

 

Saddam’s Word, Political Discourse In Iraq by Ofra Bengio

 

The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq by Faleh Jabar

 

Socialist Iraq, A Study in Iraqi Politics Since 1968 by Majid Khadduri

 

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

 

Transnational Shia Politics, Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf by Laurence Louer

 

Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation by William Polk

 

War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East Steven Heydemann Editor

 

Wings of Iraq: Volume 2: The Iraqi Air Force, 1970-1980 by Tom Cooper Milos Sipos

 

Saddam Era

 

The Achilles Trap, Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., And The Origins Of America’s Invasion Of Iraq by Steve Coll

 

Arrows of the Night, Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War by Richard Bonin

 

Baghdad Diaries: A Woman’s Chronicle of War and Exile by Nuha Al-Radi

 

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

 

Culture, History & Ideology in the Formation of Ba’thist Iraq, 1968-89 by Amatzia Baram

 

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

 

Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon

 

Endgame, Solving The Iraq Crisis by Scott Ritter

 

From Dictatorship to Democracy: An Insider’s Account of the Iraqi Opposition to Saddam by Hamid al-Bayati

 

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

 

Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq by Charles Duelfer

 

Al-Hussein, Iraqi Indigenous Conventional Arms Projects, 1980-2003 by Ali Altobchi with Tom Cooper and Adrien Fontanellaz

 

Imaging The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict In Iraq by Harith Al-Qarawee

 

Instant Empire, Saddam Hussein’s Ambition For Iraq by Simon Henderson

 

Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions by Joy Gordon

 

Iraq, A Report From The Inside by Dilip Hiro

 

Iraq Against The World, Saddam, America, And The Post-Cold War Order by Samuel Helfont

 

Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change Edited by Toby Dodge and Steven Simon

 

Iraq Confidential, The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein by Scott Ritter

 

Iraq, Eastern Flank of the Arab World by Christine Moss Helms

 

Iraq, In the Eye of the Storm by Dilip Hiro

 

Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance by Dina Rizk Khoury

 

Iraq Under Siege, The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War Edited by Anthony Arnove

 

Iraq’s Burdens, Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment by Abbas Alnasrawi

 

Iraqi Perspective Project, A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership by Kevin Woods with Michael Pease, Mark Stout, Williamson Murray and James Lacey

 

Iraqi Women, Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

 

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

 

Kurds In Iraq, The Past, Present and Future by Kerim Yildiz

 

Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope by Michael Gunter

 

The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi by Aram Roston

 

Martyrs’ Day, Chronicle of a Small War by Micheal Kelly

 

Memories of State, Politics, History, and Collective Identity In Modern Iraq by Eric Davis

 

Missions Accomplished? The United States and Iraq since World War I by Peter Hahn

 

Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And the Struggle For Iraq by Patrick Cockburn

 

Neighbors, Not Friends, Iraq And Iran After The Gulf Wars by Dilip Hiro

 

Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn

 

The Outlaw State, Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino

 

Raid On The Sun, Inside Israel’s Secret Campaign That Denied Saddam The Bomb by Rodger Claire

 

Republic Of Feaer, The Politics of Modern Iraq by Kanan Makiya

 

Saddam, His Rise and Fall by Con Coughlin

 

Saddam Hussein, A Political Biography by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi

 

Saddam Hussein Reader, Selects From Leading Writers On Iraq Turi Munthe Editor

 

Saddam Hussein The Politics Of Revenge Said Aburish

 

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

 

Saddam’s War, An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War by Kevin Woods, Williamson Murray and Thomas Holaday

 

Saddam’s Word, Political Discourse In Iraq by Ofra Bengio

 

Sanctioning Saddam, The Politics Of Intervention In Iraq by Sarah Graham-Brown

 

Scourging Of Iraq, Sanctions, Law And Natural Justice by Geoff Simons

 

The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq by Faleh Jabar

 

Spider’s Web, The secret history of how the White House illegally armed Iraq by Alan Friedman

 

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

 

A Stranger in Your Own City, Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

 

Transnational Shia Politics, Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf by Laurence Louer

 

Turkey, the US and Iraq by William Hale

 

Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation by William Polk

 

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

 

Unrevealed Milestones in the Iraqi National Nuclear Program 1981-1991 by Dhafir Selbi and Zuhair Al-Chalabi

 

War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East Steven Heydemann Editor

 

We Are Iraqis, Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar Editors

 

The Weight of a Mustard Seed, The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny by Wendell Steavenson

 

Iran-Iraq War

 

The Achilles Trap, Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., And The Origins Of America’s Invasion Of Iraq by Steve Coll

 

Ally To Adversary, An Eyewitness Account Of Iraq’s Fall From Grace by Rick Francona

 

Armies of the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 by Chris McNab

 

Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon

 

The Gulf War, The Origins and Implications of the Iraq-Iran Conflict by Majid Khadduri

 

Al-Hussein, Iraqi Indigenous Conventional Arms Projects, 1980-2003 by Ali Altobchi with Tom Cooper and Adrien Fontanellaz

 

I, Who Did Not Die, A Sweeping Story Of Loss, Redemption, And Fate by Zahed Haftland and Najah Aboud with Meredith May

 

Iran-Iraq Naval War, Volume 1: Opening Blows September-November 1980 by Tom Cooper, Sirous Ebrahimi & E.R. Hooton

 

The Iran-Iraq War by Pierre Razoux

 

The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 by Efraim Karsh

 

The Iran-Iraq War, A Military and Strategic History by Williamson Murray Kevin Woods

 

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

 

Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance by Dina Rizk Khoury

 

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

 

Iraqi Women, Untold Stories from 1948 to the Present by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

 

The Longest War, The Iran-Iraq Military Conflict by Dilip Hiro

 

Memories of State, Politics, History, and Collective Identity In Modern Iraq by Eric Davis

 

Saddam Hussein, A Political Biography by Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi

 

Saddam’s War, An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War by Kevin Woods, Williamson Murray and Thomas Holaday

 

The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq by Faleh Jabar

 

The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran by David Crist

 

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

 

Wars of Modern Babylon, A History of the Iraqi Army from 1921 to 2003 by Pesach Malovany

 

Wings of Iraq: Volume 2: The Iraqi Air Force, 1970-1980 by Tom Cooper Milos Sipos

 

Invasion of Kuwait/Gulf War

 

The Achilles Trap, Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., And The Origins Of America’s Invasion Of Iraq by Steve Coll

 

Ally To Adversary, An Eyewitness Account Of Iraq’s Fall From Grace by Rick Francona

 

Baghdad Diaries: A Woman’s Chronicle of War and Exile by Nuha Al-Radi

 

Bradley vs BMP, Desert Storm 1991 by Mike Guardia

 

Britain’s 2 Wars With Iraq 1941 1991 by Raghid El-Solh

 

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

 

The Continuing Storm, Iraq, Poisonous Weapons, and Deterrence by Avigdor Haselkorn

 

Crusade, The Untold Story Of The Persian Gulf War by Rick Atkinson

 

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

 

Desert Storm, Volume 2: Operation Desert Storm and the Coalition Liberation of Kuwait 1991 by E.R. Hooton and Tom Cooper

 

F-15C Eagle vs MiG-23/25, Iraq 1991 by Douglas Dildy and Tom Cooper

 

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

 

The Gulf Conflict 1990-1991, Diplomacy and War in the New World Order by Lawrence Freedman and Efraim Karsh

 

In The Claws Of The Tomcat: US Navy F-14 Tomcats In Air Combat Against Iran And Iraq, 1987-2000 by Tom cooper

 

Invisible War, The United States And The Iraq Sanctions by Joy Gordon

 

Iraq Against The World, Saddam, America, And The Post-Cold War Order by Samuel Helfont

 

Iraq in Wartime, Soldiering, Martyrdom, and Remembrance by Dina Rizk Khoury

 

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

 

Martyrs’ Day, Chronicle of a Small War by Micheal Kelly

 

the mother of all battles, Saddam Hussein’ Strategic Plan For The Persian Gulf War by Kevin Woods

 

Out Of The Ashes, The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn

 

The Outlaw State, Saddam Hussein’s Quest for Power and the Gulf Crisis by Elaine Sciolino

 

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

 

Saddam’s War by John Bulloch and Harvey Morris

 

Saddam’s War, An Iraqi Military Perspective of the Iran-Iraq War by Kevin Woods, Williamson Murray and Thomas Holaday

 

The Shi’ite Movement in Iraq by Faleh Jabar

 

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

 

U.S. Invasion/Occupation Of Iraq

 

The 2008 Battle of Sadr City by David Johnson, M. Wade Markel, Brian Shannon

 

Achieving Victory In Iraq, Countering An Insurgency by Col. Dominic Caraccilo and Lt. Col Andrea Thompson

 

The Achilles Trap, Saddam Hussein, The C.I.A., And The Origins Of America’s Invasion Of Iraq by Steve Coll

 

Aftermath, Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World by Nir Rosen

 

Against All Enemies, Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard Clarke

 

All Roads Lead To Baghdad: Army Special Operations Forces in Iraq by Charles Briscoe, Kenneth Finlayson, Robert Jones Jr. Cherilyn Walley, A. Dwayne Cherilyn, Michael Mullins, James Schroder

 

Ambush Alley, The Most Extraordinary Battle Of The Iraq War by Tim Pritchard

 

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

 

Among Warriors In Iraq, True Grit, Special Ops, and Raiding in Mosul and Fallujah by Mike Tucker

 

Arrows of the Night, Ahmad Chalabi and the Selling of the Iraq War by Richard Bonin

 

Assassins’ Gate, America In Iraq by George Packer

 

Bad Days In Basra, My Turbulent Time as Britain’s Man in Southern Iraq by Hilary Synnott

 

Baghdad at Sunrise, A Brigade Commander’s War in Iraq by Peter Mansoor

 

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

 

Black Flags, The Rise Of ISIS by Joby Warrick

 

Black Hearts and Painted Guns, A Battalion’s Journey Into Iraq’s Triangle Of Death by Kelly Eads and Retired Colonel Daniel Morgan

 

Black Hearts, One Platoon’s Descent Into Madness In Iraq’s Triangle Of Death by Jim Federick

 

Blind Into Baghdad, America’s War In Iraq by James Fallows

 

Blood Money, Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller

 

Burning Horizon, British Veteran Accounts of The Iraq War 2003 by Julian Whippy

 

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

 

Bush At War by Bob Woodward

 

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

 

The Clausewitz Delusion, How the American Army Screwed Up the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (A Way Forward) by Stephen Melton

 

Coalition Armor vs Iraqi Forces, Iraq 2003-06 by Chris McNab

 

Cobra II, The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael Gordon and General Bernard Trainor

 

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

 

Confronting Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush and the Invasion of Iraq by Melvyn Leffler

 

Curveball, Spies, Lies, And The Con Man Who Caused A War by Bob Drogin

 

Days Of Fore, Bush and Cheney in the White House by Peter Baker

 

The Death of the Mehdi Army, the Rise, Fall, and Revival of Iraq’s Most Powerful Militia by Nicholas Krohley

 

Debriefing the President: The Interrogation of Saddam Hussein by John Nixon

 

Degrade And Destroy, The Inside Story Of The War Against the Islamic State, From Barack Obama To Donald Trump by Michael Gordon

 

The Devil You Don’t Know, Going Back to Iraq by Zuhair Al-Jezairy

 

Duty, Memoirs Of A Secretary At War by Robert Gates

 

Eclipse Of The Sunnis, Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East by Deborah Amos

 

The Endgame, The Inside Story of the Struggle for Iraq, from George W. Bush to Barack Obama by Michael Gordon and General Bernard Trainor

 

Expectation of Valor, Planning For The Iraqi War by Colonel Kevin Benson

 

The Fall of Baghdad by Jon Lee Anderson

 

Fallujah Awakens, Marines, Sheikhs, and the Battle Against Al Qaeda by Bill Ardolino

 

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

 

Fighting for Fallujah, A New Dawn for Iraq by John Ballard

 

First Fights In Fallujah, Marines During Operation Vigilant Resolve, in Iraq, April 2004 by Ret. Colonel David Kelly

 

Flowers Of Flame, Unheard Voices of Iraq by Edited by Sadek Mohammed, Soheil Najm, Haider Al-Kabi, Dan Veach

 

The Foreigner’s Gift, The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq by Fouad Ajami

 

From Dictatorship to Democracy: An Insider’s Account of the Iraqi Opposition to Saddam by Hamid al-Bayati

 

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

 

Future of Iraq, Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division? by Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield

 

The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry, Khaled Salil Editors

 

The Gamble, General David Petraeus And The American Military Adventure In Iraq, 2006-2008 by Thomas Ricks

 

Hard Lessons, The Iraq Reconstruction Experience by Stuart Bowen

 

Hell In The Streets Of Husaybah, The April 2004 Fights Of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marines In Husaybah, Iraq by (Ret) Lt Col David Kelly

 

Hide And Seek, The Search For Truth In Iraq by Charles Duelfer

 

Hoodwinked, The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War by John Prados

 

Hope Is Not A Plan, The War In Iraq From Inside The Green Zone Thomas Mowle Editor

 

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

 

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

 

Imaging The Nation, Nationalism, Sectarianism and Socio-Political Conflict In Iraq by Harith Al-Qarawee

 

Imperial Life In The Emerald City, Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran

 

In The Red Zone, A Journey Into the Soul of Iraq by Steven Vincent

 

Inside The Resistance, Reporting From Iraq’s Danger Zone by Zaki Chehab

 

The Insurgents, David Petraeus And The Plot To Change The American Way Of War by Fred Kaplan

 

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency In Iraq by Ahmed Hashim

 

Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation by Loretta Napoleoni

 

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 Crimes of Aggressive War, The Legal Cynicism of Criminal Militarism by John Hagan, Joshua Kaiser and Anna Hanson

 

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

 

Iraq and the war on terror, Twelve months of insurgency 2004/2005 by Paul Rogers

 

Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change Edited by Toby Dodge and Steven Simon

 

Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism by Toby Dodge

 

Iraq, Guide To Law And Policy by Chibli Mallat

 

Iraq in Fragments, The Occupation and Its Legacy by Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala

 

Iraq, People, History, Politics by Gareth Stansfield

 

Iraq Policy & Perceptions by Richard Schmierer

 

The Iraq War by John Keegan

 

Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy by David Ghanim

 

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

 

Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency by Ahmed Hashim

 

Iraqi Perspective Project, A View of Operation Iraqi Freedom from Saddam’s Senior Leadership by Kevin Woods with Michael Pease, Mark Stout, Williamson Murray and James Lacey

 

The ISIS Apocalypse, The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State by William McCants

 

ISIS Inside The Army of Terror, Revised & Updated by Michael Weiss Hassan Hassan

 

The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement by Haror Ingram, Craig Whiteside and Charlie Winter

 

ISIS The State of Terror by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger

 

Islamic State The Digital Caliphate by Abdel Bari Atwan

 

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

 

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

 

Lessons Of The Iraqi De-Ba’athification Program For Iraq’s Future And The Arab Revolutions by W. Andrew Terrill

 

Liberate And Leave, Fatal Flaws In The Early Strategy For Postwar Iraq by Don Eberly

 

Losing Iraq, Inside The Post War Reconstruction Fiasco by David Phillips

 

Losing The Golden Hour, An Insider’s View of Iraq’s Reconstruction by James Stephenson

 

The Next Attack, The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

 

The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq, Political Factions and the Ruling Elite by Zana Gulmohamad

 

The Man Who Pushed America To War, The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi by Aram Roston

 

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

 

The Master Plan, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy For Final Victory by Brian Fishman

 

Meltdown in Haditha, The Killing of 24 Iraqi Civilians by U.S. Marines and the Failure of Military Justice by Kenneth Englade

 

Missions Accomplished? The United States and Iraq since World War I by Peter Hahn

 

Mugged By Reality, The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions by John Agresto

 

Muqtada, Muqtada Al-Sadr, The Shia Revival, And the Struggle For Iraq by Patrick Cockburn

 

My Share of the Task, A Memoir by General Stanley McChrystal

 

My Year In Iraq, The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope by Paul Bremer III

 

Naked in Baghdad, The Iraq War as seen by NPR’s correspondent by Anne Garrels

 

Night Draws Near, Iraq’s People In The Shadow of America’s War by Anthony Shadid

 

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

 

No End In Sight, Iraq’s Descent Into Chaos by Charles Ferguson

 

No Time For The Truth, The Haditha Incident And The Search For Justice by Nathaniel Helms and Haytham Faraj

 

No True Glory, A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah by Bing West

 

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

 

The Occupation, War And Resistance In Iraq by Patrick Cockburn

 

Oil and Democracy in Iraq by Robert Springbord, Ed.

 

Once Upon A Time In Iraq, History of a Modern Tragedy by James Bluemel and Dr Renad Mansour

 

The One Percent Doctrine, Deep Inside America’s Pursuit Of Its Enemies Since 9/11 by Ron Suskind

 

Operation Hotel California, The Clandestine War Inside Iraq by Mike Tucker Charles Faddis

 

The Origins Of ISIS by Simon Mabon and Stephen Royle

 

Overreach, Delusions of Regime Change In Iraq by Michael MacDonald

 

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

 

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

 

The Political Economy of Iraq, Restoring Balance in a Post-Conflict Society by Frank Gunter

 

A Pretext for War, 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies by James Bamford

 

The Price of Loyalty by Ron Suskind

 

The Prince of the Marshes, And Other Occupational Hazards Of A Year In Iraq by Rory Stewart

 

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

 

The Regime Change Consensus, Iraq In American Politics 1990-2003 by Joseph Stieb

 

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

 

Return To Ruin, Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia by Zainab Saleh

 

Revolt On The Tigris, The Al-Sadr Uprising And The Governing of Iraq by Mark Etherington

 

Rise Of The Vulcans, The History of Bush’s War Cabinet by James Mann

 

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

 

Salam Pax: The Baghdad Blog by Salam Pax

 

The Secret History Of The Iraq War by Yossef Bodansky

 

Sectarianism In Iraq, Antagonistic Visions of Unity by Fanar Haddad

 

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, The Saudi Struggle For Iraq by Katherine Harvey

 

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

 

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

 

A Short History of Iraq, Second Edition by Thabit Abdullah

 

The Snake Eaters, An Unlikely Band of Brothers and the Battle for the Soul of Iraq by Owen West

 

So Wrong For So Long, How The Press, The Pundits – And The President – Failed On Iraq by Greg Mitchell

 

A Soldier’s Dream, Captain Travis Patriquin and the Awakening of Iraq by William Doyle

 

Special Operations Forces in Iraq by Leigh Neville

 

Special Operations in Iraq by Mike Ryan

 

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

 

State of Denial, Bush At War, Part III by Bob Woodward

 

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

 

A Stranger in Your Own City, Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

 

The Strongest Tribe, War, Police, and the Endgame in Iraq by Bing West

 

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

 

The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy by Zaid Al-Ali

 

Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom by Mohammed Hafez

 

Surge, My Journey with General David Petraeus and the Remaking of the Iraq War by Peter Mansoor

 

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

 

Task Force Black, The Explosive True Story Of The SAS And The Secret War In Iraq by Mark Urban

 

Tell Me How This Ends, General David Petraeus And The Search For A Way Out Of Iraq by Linda Robinson

 

The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014 by Malcolm Nance

 

The Threatening Storm, The United States and Iraq: the crisis, the strategy, and the prospects after Saddam by Kenneth Pollack

 

A Time Of Our Choosing, America’s War In Iraq by Todd Purdum

 

To Start A War: How The Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq by Robert Draper

 

The Triumph of the Martyrs, A Reporter’s Journey into Occupied Iraq by Nir Rosen

 

Turkey, the US and Iraq by William Hale

 

The Twilight War, The Secret History Of America’s Thirty-Year Conflict With Iran by David Crist

 

The U.S. Army In The Iraq War: Volume I, Invasion, Insurgency, Civil War, 2003-2006 by Colonel Joel Rayburn, Colonel Frank Sobchak editors

 

The U.S. Army In The Iraq War Volume 2, Surge And Withdrawal 2007-2011 by Colonel Joel Rayburn, Colonel Frank Sobchak editors

 

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

 

U.S. Policy In Post-Saddam Iraq Michael Eisenstadt and Eric Mathewson Editors

 

Under The Black Flag, At The Frontier Of The New Jihad by Sami Moubayed

 

Understanding Iraq, the Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan’s Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation by William Polk

 

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

 

The Unraveling, High Hopes And Missed Opportunity In Iraq by Emma Sky

 

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

 

Volatile Landscape, Iraq and Its Insurgent Movements by Ramzy Mardini Ed.

 

Voodoo In Sadr City, The Rise of Shiaism In Iraq by Boone Cutler

 

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

 

War and Decision, Inside The Pentagon At The Dawn Of The War On Terrorism by Douglas Feith

 

War Journal, My Five Years In Iraq by Richard Engel

 

A War Of Choice, The British In Iraq 2003-9 by Jack Fairweather

 

The War Within, A Secret White House History 2006-2008 by Bob Woodward

 

Wars of Modern Babylon, A History of the Iraqi Army from 1921 to 2003 by Pesach Malovany

 

We Are Iraqis, Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War Nadje Al-Ali and Deborah Al-Najjar Editors

 

We Meant Well, How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People by Peter Van Buren

 

Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq by Sheldon Rampton John Stauber

 

Weapons of Mass Persuasion, Marketing the War Against Iraq by Paul Rutherford

 

What Happened, Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception by Scott McClellan

 

What Kind of Liberation? Women and the Occupation of Iraq by Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt

 

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

 

The WMD Mirage, Iraq’s Decade of Deception and America’s False Premise for War Craig Whitney editor

 

Worthy Fights by Leon Panetta and Jim Newton

 

Zarqawi, The New Face of Al-Qaeda by Jean-Charles Brisard

 

Post-US Occupation Iraq

 

After The Caliphate by Colin P. Clarke

 

Airpower in the War Against ISIS by Benjamin Lambeth

 

Between Muslims, Religious Differences In Iraqi Kurdistan by Andrew Bush

 

Black Flags, The Rise Of ISIS by Joby Warrick

 

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 Fires of Spring, A Post-Arab Spring Journey Through the Turbulent New Middle East, Turkey, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt, and Tunisia by Shelly Culbertson

 

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

 

Impossible Victory, How Iraq Defeated ISIS by Haider Al-Abadi

 

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

 

Iraq From War To A New Authoritarianism by Toby Dodge

 

Iraq’s Dysfunctional Democracy by David Ghanim

 

Iraq’s Shia Warlords And Their Militias: Political And Security Challenges And Options by Norman Cigar

 

The ISIS Apocalypse, The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State by William McCants

 

ISIS Inside The Army of Terror, Revised & Updated by Michael Weiss Hassan Hassan

 

The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement by Haror Ingram, Craig Whiteside and Charlie Winter

 

ISIS The State of Terror by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger

 

Islamic State The Digital Caliphate by Abdel Bari Atwan

 

M1A1 in Iraqi Service by SABOT Publications

 

The Making of Foreign Policy in Iraq, Political Factions and the Ruling Elite by Zana Gulmohamad

 

The Master Plan, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy For Final Victory by Brian Fishman

 

Mosul Under ISIS, Eyewitness Accounts Of Life In The Caliphate by Mathilde Becker Aarseth

 

Netflix’s Mosul

 

The Next Attack, The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon

 

The Origins Of ISIS by Simon Mabon and Stephen Royle

 

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

 

The Political Economy of Iraq, Restoring Balance in a Post-Conflict Society by Frank Gunter

 

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

 

Rise of Islamic State, ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution by Patrick Cockburn

 

Sectarianism In Iraq, Antagonistic Visions of Unity by Fanar Haddad

 

Shatter the Nations, ISIS and the War for the Caliphate by Mike Giglio

 

A Stranger in Your Own City, Travels in the Middle East’s Long War by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

 

The Struggle For Iraq’s Future, How Corruption, Incompetence and Sectarianism Have Undermined Democracy by Zaid Al-Ali

 

Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom by Mohammed Hafez

 

The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014 by Malcolm Nance

 

They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate by James Verini

 

Under The Black Flag, At The Frontier Of The New Jihad by Sami Moubayed

 

Kurds

 

Between Muslims, Religious Differences In Iraqi Kurdistan by Andrew Bush

 

The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq Brendan O’Leary, John McGarry, Khaled Salil Editors

 

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

 

Iraq & the Kurdish Question, 1958-1970 by Sa’ad Jawad

 

Journey Among Brave Men, Travels in Kurdistan by Dana Adams Schmidt

 

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

 

The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970 by Edgar O’Ballance

 

The Kurds, A Modern History by Michael Gunter

 

Kurds In Iraq, The Past, Present and Future by Kerim Yildiz

 

Kurds of Iraq, Tragedy and Hope by Michael Gunter

 

Insurgency

 

Black Flags, The Rise Of ISIS by Joby Warrick

 

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

 

Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency In Iraq by Ahmed Hashim

 

Insurgent Iraq, Al Zarqawi and the New Generation by Loretta Napoleoni

 

Iraq’s Sunni Insurgency by Ahmed Hashim

 

The ISIS Apocalypse, The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State by William McCants

 

ISIS Inside The Army of Terror, Revised & Updated by Michael Weiss Hassan Hassan

 

The ISIS Reader, Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement by Haror Ingram, Craig Whiteside and Charlie Winter

 

ISIS The State of Terror by Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger

 

Islamic State The Digital Caliphate by Abdel Bari Atwan

 

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

 

The Master Plan, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the Jihadi Strategy For Final Victory by Brian Fishman

 

The Origins Of ISIS by Simon Mabon and Stephen Royle

 

Suicide Bombers In Iraq, The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom by Mohammed Hafez

 

The Terrorists of Iraq, Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraqi Insurgency 2003-2014 by Malcolm Nance

 

Under The Black Flag, At The Frontier Of The New Jihad by Sami Moubayed

 

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

 

Zarqawi, The New Face of Al-Qaeda by Jean-Charles Brisard

 

Fiction

 

Basrayatha, The Story Of A City by Muhammad Khudayyir

 

Flowers Of Flame, Unheard Voices of Iraq by Edited by Sadek Mohammed, Soheil Najm, Haider Al-Kabi, Dan Veach

 

Wings Over Iraq, A Novel by Eric Forsyth

 

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