{"product_id":"9781035052172","title":"Occupational Hazards","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Rory Stewart\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eIraq\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 9 May 2024 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePaperback | 464 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 198 x 31mm | 318g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Devastating’ - The Sunday Times‘Absolutely absorbing’ - Ken LoachBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOccupational Hazards 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘An extraordinarily vivid tale’ - The Guardian‘Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative’ - The Observer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rory Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64838538494301,"sku":"9781035052172","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781035052172.jpg?v=1780055716","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781035052172","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}