Salam pax - The Clandestine Diary of an Odinary Iraqi (Paperback, 1st American ed)

Salam Pax has attracted a huge worldwide readership for the Internet diary he kept dyring the buildup, prosecution, and aftermath of the war in Iraq. Bringing his incisive and sharply funny Web postings together in print for the first time, Salam Pax provides one of the most gripping accounts of the Iraq conflict and will be the subject of global media attention.
In September 2002, a 29-year old Iraqi architect calling himself 'Salam Pax' began posting daily accounts of everyday life in Baghdad onto the Internet. Written in English, these postings contained everything from descriptions of the hardships of life in Saddam Hussein's paranoid regime, to reviews of the latest (pirate) CDs by Coldplay and Bjork, to gossip about his employers. Salam daily risked retribution from Saddam's regime, as over 200,000 people went missing under Saddam, many for far lesser crimes than the open criticism of the regime that he voiced in his diary.
Salam Pax's sharp, candid and often dryly funny articles soon attracted a worldwide readership. In the months that followed, as a huge American-led force gathered to destroy Saddam's hated regime, Salam's internet diary became a unique record of the anticipation, anger, resentment, humor and sheer terror felt by an ordinary man living through the final days of Saddam Hussein's twenty-five year dictatorship, and the aftermath of its destruction.
Salam Pax is an astonishing record of the last days of Saddam and the cleandestine diary of an ordinary Iraqi.

General

Imprint:	Grove Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2003
First published:	September 2003
Authors:	Salam Pax
Dimensions:	210 x 133 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	206
Edition:	1st American ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8021-4044-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > Arms negotiation & control Books > Biography > Historical, political & military Promotions
LSN:	0-8021-4044-0
Barcode:	9780802140449

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