Further Reading

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General History of Iraq

Al-Askari, Jafar Pasha. A Soldier’s Story: From Ottoman Rule to Independent Iraq. Arabian Publishers, 2003.

Batatu, Hanna. The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq. London: Saqi Books, 2004.

Davis, Eric. Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.

Khadduri, Majid. Socialist Iraq: A Study in Iraqi Politics Since 1968. Washington, DC: Middle East Institute, 1978.

Khadduri, Majid, and Edmund Ghareeb. War in the Gulf 1990–91: The Iraq–Kuwait Conflict and its Implications. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Nakash, Yitzhak. The Shi’is of Iraq. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Iraq War and the War on Terror

Baker, James A. III, et al. The Iraq Study Group Report. New York: Vintage Books, 2006.

Bobbitt, Philip. Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Chehab, Zaki. Inside the Resistance: The Iraqi Insurgency and the Future of the Middle East. New York: Nation Books, 2005.

Filkins, Dexter. The Forever War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.

Finkel, David. The Good Soldiers. New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

Gordon, Michael R., and Bernard E. Trainor. Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006.

Hard Lessons: The Iraq Reconstruction Experience. Washington, DC: Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, 2009.

Hashim, Ahmed S. Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006.

Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. New York: Doubleday, 2008.

Miller, T. Christian. Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives, and Corporate Greed in Iraq. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006.

Packer, George. The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005.

Perry, Walter L., et al. Withdrawing from Iraq: Alternative Schedules, Associated Risks, and Mitigating Strategies. Santa Monica, CA: RAND/National Defense Research Institute, 2009.

Ricks, Thomas E. The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006–2008. New York: Penguin, 2009.

Rosen, Nir. In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq. New York: Free Press, 2006.

Shadid, Anthony. Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War. New York: Henry Holt, 2005.

Walzer, Michael, and Nicolaus Mills, eds. Getting Out: Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009.

West, Bing. No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle For Fallujah. New York: Bantam Books, 2005.

Iraqi Refugees

Amos, Deborah. Eclipse of the Sunnis: Power, Exile, and Upheaval in the Middle East. New York: PublicAffairs, 2010.

US Department of State and the Broadcasting Board of Governors, Office of Inspector General, Middle East Regional Office. “Status of U.S. Refugee Resettlement Processing for Iraqi Nationals.” MERO-IQO-08-02, May 2008.

US Government Accountability Office. “Iraqi Refugees and Special Immigrant Visa Holders Face Challenges Resettling in the United States and Obtaining U.S. Government Employment.” GAO-10-274, March 9, 2010.

Vietnam

Coleman, Bradley Lynn. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume X: Vietnam, January 1973–July 1975. DIANE Publishing, 2012.

Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

Herr, Michael. Dispatches. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.

Logevall, Fredrik. Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. New York: Random House, 2012.

Memoranda of Conversations, 1973–1977. Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum, Ann Arbor, MI. http://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/guides/findingaid/Memoranda_of_Conversations.asp#Ford.

Ninh, Bào. The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995.

Sheehan, Neil. A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. New York: Modern Library, 2009.

Snepp, Frank. Decent Interval: An Insider’s Account of Saigon’s Indecent End. New York: Random House, 1977.

World War II and Jewish Refugee Policy

Breitman, Richard, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg, eds. Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932–1935. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2007.

———. Refugees and Rescue: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1935–1945. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.

Paldiel, Mordecai. Diplomat Heroes of the Holocaust. Jersey City, NJ: Ktav Publishers, 2007.

Other Wars

Crapanzano, Vincent. The Harkis: The Wound That Never Heals. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Horne, Alistair. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962. New York: Viking Press, 1978.

Jasanoff, Maya. Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.