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To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind

Autor Kirk W. Johnson
en Limba Engleză CD-Audio – 3 sep 2013
In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID's only American employee who spoke Arabic. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq.Appointed as USAID's first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city's IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators-young men and women sick of Saddam, filled with Hollywood slang, and enchanted by the idea of a peaceful, democratic Iraq. It was not to be. As sectarian violence escalated, Iraqis employed by the U.S. coalition found themselves subject to a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and death.On his first brief vacation, Johnson, swept into what doctors later described as a "fugue state," crawled onto the ledge outside his hotel window and plunged. He would spend the next year in an abyss of depression, surgery, and PTSD-crushed by having failed in Iraq. One day, Johnson received an email from an Iraqi friend, Yaghdan: People are trying to kill me and I need your help. After being identified by a militiaman, Yaghdan had emerged from his house to find the severed head of a dog and a death threat. That email launched Johnson's mission to get help from the U.S. government for Yaghdan and thousands like him abandoned in Iraq. The List Project has now helped more than 1,500 Iraqis find refuge in America. To Be a Friend Is Fatal is Kirk W. Johnson's unforgettable portrait of the human rubble of war and a book that "redeems a measure of pride from a national episode full of tragedy and shame" (George Packer).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781452665597
ISBN-10: 1452665591
Dimensiuni: 137 x 191 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.09 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: TANTOR MEDIA INC

Recenzii

"Kirk Johnson is one of the few genuine heroes of America's war in Iraq. . . . Johnson's story is about America's shame, and also its honor. This is an essential book." ---Dexter Filkins author of The Forever War

Notă biografică

Kirk W. Johnson has become the leading public voice on the plight of America's Iraqi allies. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Fulbright Scholar, and recipient of fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and Yaddo, his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and Foreign Policy. The founder of the List Project, Kirk lives in Somerville, Massachusetts. Coming soon...

Descriere

In this stunning memoir of "one of the few genuine heroes of America's war in Iraq" (Dexter Filkins), Kirk W. Johnson provides a rare glimpse into the perspective of the Iraqi people, and a searching exploration of America's moral obligations to those Iraqis who stepped forward to help.