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Blinded by the sunlight : emerging from the prison of Saddam's Iraq
- Title
- Blinded by the sunlight : emerging from the prison of Saddam's Iraq / Matthew McAllester.
- Author
- McAllester, Matthew, 1969-
- Publication
- New York, NY : HarperCollins, ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DS79.76 .M33 2004 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Iraqi prison survivor shares the story of his incarceration and the obstacles that were overcome to secure his release, in a personal account that also gauges the prospects of Iraqis during and after Saddam Hussein's rule.
- Subject
- McAllester, Matthew, 1969-
- MacAllester, Matthew, 1969-
- 1991-2011
- Geschichte
- Geschichte 2003
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Journalists > United States > Biography
- 15.75 history of Asia
- Journalists
- Golfkrieg 2003
- Gefangener
- Gefängnis
- Journalist
- Journalisten
- Gevangenisstraf
- Golfoorlog (2003)
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Journalists > United States > Biography
- Iraq > History > 1991-2003
- Iraq
- United States
- Irak
- Iraq > History > 1991-
- Amerikaner
- Genre/Form
- Autobiography
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- History
- Autobiographies.
- Contents
- For eight terrifying days in March, while Baghdad was ablaze with bombs, Pulitzer-Prize -- winning reporter Matt McAllester and four other Westerners were imprisoned in Abu Ghraib, the most horrific prison in the Middle East. Blinded by the Sunlight gives a rare and honest insight into Saddam's terrifying kingdom, from one of the Westerners who know firsthand what lay behind the facade.
- ISBN
- 0060588195
- 9780060588199
- LCCN
- 2004273745
- OCLC
- ocm54451329
- 54451329
- SCSB-14401793
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library