Saddam Hussein
Subtitle: A Political Biography
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: December 17, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780802139788
Subjects: Iraq - History; Politics and government; Hussein, Saddam,; U.S. - Middle East Relations; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Political; Biography/Autobiography; Middle East - General; Iraq; History / Middle East; Hussein, Saddam; Biography; Presidents; 1937-
First sentence: In 1394, as the Tartar hordes of Timurlane swept over Mesopotamia, they took the trouble of stopping at a small provincial town on the Tigris river, some hundred miles north of Baghdad, where they erected a pyramid with the skulls of their victims.