For comprehensive overviews of the country, see Iraq: A Country Study (1990), edited by Helen Metz; Pebe Marr's Iraq, Troubles and Tensions (1997); and Iraq Since 1958 (1990), by Marion and Peter Farouk-Sluglett. For the recent history of Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries, a readable and dependable source is Congressional Quarterly's The Middle East (1994), edited by Daniel
Diller. Agood introduction to the Kurds and their history is in Michael Gunter's The Kurds of Iraq: Tragedy and Hope (1992). For the fate of the Kurds after 1991, see S. T. Laizer's Martyrs, Traitors and Patriots: Kurdistan After the Gulf War (1996).
For the nature of Iraqi government before Baath rule, see Iraq Under Qassem (1969). To learn about the authoritarian nature of the Baath regime, see Samir al-Khalil's Republic of Fear: The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq (1990) and Amatzia Baram's Culture, History, and Ideology in the Formation of Ba'thist Iraq (1991). Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi's Saddam Hussein: A Political Biography (1991) is perhaps the best book about Saddam's career, with an emphasis on the rational aspects of his dictatorial methods.
Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroi's Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf (1990) provides a shorter journalistic account. Of the many good books on the Persian Gulf War, two concise and readable accounts are in Steve Yetiv's The Persian Gulf Crisis (1997) and George Bush's War (1992), by Jean Smith. Rick Atkinson gives much information about individual political and military leaders and their strategies in Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War (1993).
International efforts to monitor Iraqi biological and nuclear weapons are examined in Michael V. Deaver's Disarming Iraq: Monitoring Power and Resistance (2001) and in Sarah Graham-Brown's Sanctioning Saddam: The Politics of Intervention in Iraq
(1999) . An insider's view of Iraqi efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction may be found in Saddam's Bombmaker: The Terrifying Inside Story of the Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda (2000), by Khidhir Hamza. Saddam Hussein's policies toward the United States after the 1991 war are considered in Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America
(2000) , by Laurie Mylroie. For a discussion of Saddam Hussein's impact on his country, see The Reckoning: Iraq and the Legacy of Saddam Hussein (2002), by Sandra Mackey.
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