The Prisoner in His Palace: Saddam Hussein, His American Guards, and What History Leaves Unsaid
✍ Scribed by Bardenwerper, Will
- Book ID
- 109954230
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 496 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781501117831
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In the haunting tradition of In Cold Blood and The Executioner's Song , this is the bizarre tale of twelve young soldiers deployed to Iraq expecting to face the enemy in combat, but find themselves protecting the enemy's most infamous and fearsome leader--Saddam Hussein--in the months before his death.
What the self-dubbed "Super Twelve" experience in the Fall of 2006 is cognitive dissonance at its most extreme. Expecting to engage with the enemy "outside the wire," they're suddenly tasked with guarding a notorious dictator until he can be hanged. Watching over the Coalition Forces' most "high value detainee" in a former palace and regularly transporting their prisoner to his raucous trial, the men gradually begin to question some of their most basic assumptions. Saddam proves complex--voluble, charming, and given to displays of affection. Perhaps most shockingly, in his Spartan stoicism and the courage he shows facing death, he eventually coaxes...