Occupational Hazards

<p><b>A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of <i>Politics on the Edge</i> and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.<br><br>‘Devastating’ - <i>The Sunday Times</i><br>‘Absolutely absorbing’ - Ken Loach</b><br><br>By September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, then a young British diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority''s deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency.<br><br><i>Occupational Hazards </i>is Rory Stewart''s inside account of the attempt to rebuild a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insurmountable difficulties encountered. It reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers, a rare and compelling insight that remains just as important today.<br><br><b>‘An extraordinarily vivid tale’ - <i>The</i> <i>Guardian</i></b><br><b>‘Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative’ - <i>The Observer</i></b></p>