The prisoner in his palace

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"This superb account of the twelve men assigned to guard Saddam Hussein forces us to acknowl-edge that there can be honor and courage on ali sides in war. Absolutism is for people who've never been there." -NATHANIEL FICK, author of One Buliét Away
"Captivating Bardenwerper brilliantly juxtaposes the brutal acts that Saddam Hussein per-petrated against his own people with the dignified, and even tender, manner in which the Iraqi dictator interacted with his American guards." -PETER L. BERGEN, author of Manhunt
"Offers shocking insights A disturbing and entirely captivating piece of literary journalism."
-KAI BÍRD, coauthor of American Prometheus and author of The Good Spy
A BOOK THAT, IN THE HAUNTING TRADITION of In ColdBloodmd The Executioner's Song, lifts away the top layer of evil and finds complexity beneath, this is the bizarre tale of twelve young American soldiers who are deployed to Iraq in the summer of 2006. Rather than fight the enemy in combat, the men are... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"This superb account of the twelve men assigned to guard Saddam Hussein forces us to acknowl-edge that there can be honor and courage on ali sides in war. Absolutism is for people who've never been there." -NATHANIEL FICK, author of One Buliét Away
"Captivating Bardenwerper brilliantly juxtaposes the brutal acts that Saddam Hussein per-petrated against his own people with the dignified, and even tender, manner in which the Iraqi dictator interacted with his American guards." -PETER L. BERGEN, author of Manhunt
"Offers shocking insights A disturbing and entirely captivating piece of literary journalism."
-KAI BÍRD, coauthor of American Prometheus and author of The Good Spy
A BOOK THAT, IN THE HAUNTING TRADITION of In ColdBloodmd The Executioner's Song, lifts away the top layer of evil and finds complexity beneath, this is the bizarre tale of twelve young American soldiers who are deployed to Iraq in the summer of 2006. Rather than fight the enemy in combat, the men are unexpectedly assigned to guard the country's notorious leader—Saddam Hussein—in the months leading to his execution. Living alongside, and caring for, their "high-value detainee" in a former palace dubbed "the Rock" and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning somé of their most basic assumptions.
Thoroughly researched and provocative, The Prisoner in His Palace contrasts two very different Saddams: the defiant younger man who uses torture and murder as tools, and the older man who proves affectionate, charming, and unexpectedly courageous in the face of looming death. In this artfully constructed narrative, Saddam, the "man withóut a conscience," manages to get everyone around him to examine theirs. Many of those who bid good-bye to Saddam will be forever changed by the experience, and we will be, too.
WILL BARDENWERPER has contributed to the New York Times and the Washington Post. He served as an Airborne Ranger-qualified infantry officer in Iraq and was awarded a Combat Infantryman Badge and a Bronzé Star. In 2010, he joined the Pentagon as a Presidential Management Fellow, where he spent the next four years. He has an MA in international public policy from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in English from Princeton.
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