Title: Disappointing
Product review: I was very disappointed by this book. It tries to cover far too much ground in too little space. Not only is the book not a "people's history of Iraq" it is not even really a history of the Iraqi Communist Party.This is definitely not the first book anyone should read about Iraq or the Iraqi left. The first thing to read is Tariq Ali's Bush in Babylon. Reading this book first will only confuse you. If you read Ali's work and want more, read Hannah Batatu's classic the Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements in Iraq, a 1,300 page monster filled with first hand accounts by Communists and Ba'athists, as well as tons of statistics and other empirical data.
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