{"product_id":"rory-stewart-occupational-hazards-2024-paperback","title":"Rory Stewart: Occupational Hazards [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003ePolitics on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Devastating' - \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Absolutely absorbing' - Ken Loach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOccupational Hazards \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An extraordinarily vivid tale' - \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative' - \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stewart, Rory","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49297098867027,"sku":"9781035052172","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/stewart-rory-rory-stewart-occupational-hazards-2024-paperback-9781035052172-58568372650323.jpg?v=1726703041","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/rory-stewart-occupational-hazards-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}