Invisible Nation
Subtitle: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
Publisher: Walker & Company; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780802716118
Subjects: History; History - General History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Asia - General; Middle East - General; Political Ideologies - Nationalism; Political Science / General; International Relations - General; 21st century; Iraq; Kurds; Politics and government
Description: Numbering 25 million, the Kurds remain the largest ethnic group in the world without its own nation. This is not for want of trying, as British reporter Lawrence writes in this lucid, eye-opening account of the long, brutal struggle that continues despite opposition from Mideastern nations and the U.S.