Defeat - Why America and Britain Lost Iraq by Steele, Jonathan - 2008

Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: Counterpoint, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. From the book, ""Having conducted extensive interviews with ordinary Iraqis--Shia, Sunni, and Kurd, religious and secular, middle class and poor--Steele shows for the first time how the staging posts of the conflict so familiar to Western newspaper readers were seen by the Iraqis themselves. Turning a searchlight onto the foreign policy establishments of Britain and America, he looks at why they failed to realize that the post-Saddam vacuum would be filled by Islamists, not pro-Western secularists. With the sectarian conflict intensifying, Steele delves into confidential sources to reveal the processes and arguments which led to Britain effectively handing over control of the South to Iranian-backed Shia militias."" Hard cover in very good condition. Text block clean and tight. No markings noted. Dust jacket in very good condition. Stated First Edition.