Understanding Iraq
Subtitle: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate to the American Occupation
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: March 14, 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780060764692
First sentence: Ancestors of inhabitants of today's Iraq began to emerge from the long shadows of prehistory about twelve thousand years ago.