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'Elegant, erudite, ambitious, inventive - a remarkable blend of research, imagination and first-hand experience.' Rory Stewart
'A sweeping and superbly written epic' Wall Street Journal
'A work of great ambition... an account that is informed, filled with insights and a cracking read too.' Peter Frankopan
Iraq is where civilisation was…
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Wow! What a romp across 5,000 years of time to study and understand the "cradle of civilization". Iraq, of course, should be familiar to U.S. and other readers given the very many recent wars that involved its lands and peoples. Mr. Bull first traveled there as a war correspondent, and his journalism background is evident in his writing. That said, he's certainly made an impressive go of drawing together a vast amount of scholarship. The modern nation-state of "Iraq" is, like most places, a mishmash of peoples and their cultures. Mesopotamia, its more general name, is literally the land between…
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