Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone

Rajiv Chandrasekaran

Vintage Books, 2007

2007

365 páginas

12h 10m

ISBN-10: 0307278832

An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad's Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq. The Washington Post's former Baghdad bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran takes us with him into the Zone; into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstructing a devastated nation.