A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq. From Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.&lsquoDevastating&rsquo The Sunday Times&lsquoAbsolutely absorbing&rsquo Ken LoachBy September 2003, six months after the USled invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, then a young British diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority&#39s deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranianlinked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency.Occupational Hazards is Rory Stewart&#39s inside account of the attempt to rebuild a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insurmountable difficulties encountered.It reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers, a rare and compelling insight that remains just as important today.&lsquoAn extraordinarily vivid tale&rsquo The Guardian&lsquoWonderfully observed, wise, evocative&rsquo The Observer

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