The Wars Against Saddam

John Simpson has spent more than twenty years reporting form Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, most recently in defiance of the Iraqi authorities, who barred him after the Gulf War of 1990-1. This is his compelling and cogent analysis of the West’s troubled relationship with the country. He examines the period leading up to the first Gulf War, the increasing tyranny of Saddam’s regime in the years that followed, and the reality of his weapons programme. With characteristic candour he addresses the apparent threat from Iraq in the wake of 11 September, showing in detail how and why the US, with the support of Tony Blair and the British forces, when to war in March 2003. Taking us right up to the arrest of Saddam and its aftermath, this is the definitive account of the rise and fall of a regime from the journalist who has experienced it first-hand.