Ali A.

Baghdad’s rise, fall – and rise again

Justin Marozzi's Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood is a work of love about a city that has seen glories and survived horrors

View of Baghdad in 1918 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy] 
issue 31 May 2014

  • Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood

    Justin Marozzi

    Allen Lane, pp. 442

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