Ahmad's war, Ahmad's peace
Subtitle: surviving under Saddam, dying in the new Iraq
By: Michael Goldfarb.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, CA]
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Shawkat, Ahmad; Translators -- Iraq -- Biography; Political prisoners -- Iraq -- Biography; Kurds -- Iraq -- Biography; Iraq -- Ethnic relations
Genres: Biography.
Description: The public radio personality tells the story of his Kurdish translator, Ahmad Shawkat, who survived imprisonment and torture by Iraqi secret police only to be killed by unknown gunmen in Mosul after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-340) and index.