‘Devastating’ – The Sunday Times<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Absolutely absorbing’ – Ken Loach<\/b><\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
‘An extraordinarily vivid tale’ – The<\/i> Guardian<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
‘Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative’ – The Observer<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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