Home
»
Impossible Victory
Impossible Victory
★★★★★
★★★★★
Regular price
€31.99
Regular price
€32.50
Sale
Sale price
€31.99
A01=Haider al-Abadi
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Haider al-Abadi
automatic-update
Baghdad
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JPSL
Category=JPWL
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Haider Al-Abadi
Iraq
Isis
Language_English
Middle East
Occupation
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
Saddam Hussein
softlaunch
terrorism
terrorist
Product details
- ISBN 9781785907357
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Biteback Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock
10-20 Working Days: On Backorder
Will Deliver When Available: On Pre-Order or Reprinting
We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!
By 2014, the world had grown weary of Iraq and its troubles. The Americans had all but gone and the media had turned its gaze towards Syria, but Iraq's problems were far from over. That same year, ISIS put Iraq back on the map as they crossed the border from Syria and rampaged through the country, kidnapping, raping and killing, all in the name of enforcing their murderous interpretation of Sharia law.
Terror had arrived and was taking the region in its grip. Saddam Hussein, the occupation, sectarian war, corruption and political instability had collectively laid the groundwork for further violence, and Iraqis were about to see the worst of it.
It was against this backdrop that Haider al-Abadi became Prime Minister. What would likely be the most formidable task of his life lay ahead of him: to help unify his homeland's fractured military and politics and, slowly, to turn the tide on ISIS, ultimately achieving what once seemed an impossible victory.
This is the definitive and fascinating true story of how the people of Iraq took on and eventually defeated ISIS, told by the country's former Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi.
Dr Haider al-Abadi was born in Baghdad in 1952 into a professional, middle-class family. He lived in exile in the United Kingdom in for twenty-seven years due to his involvement with the political opposition to Saddam Hussein. During his exile, Dr Abadi founded his own company specialising in rapid transit systems. He also led the Islamic Dawa Party in the UK and was a member of the party's leadership worldwide.
In 2003, he returned to Iraq to join the new government, occupying the positions of Minister of Communications, adviser to the Prime Minister, chair of the Parliamentary Finance and Economic Committees and Deputy Speaker of Parliament between the years 2006 and 2014. In 2014, Dr Abadi became the Prime Minister of Iraq and led the country's successful military campaign against the so-called Islamic State (Daesh) as Commander-in-Chief.
Qty: