"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso

My first war -- Mother of all battles -- The years of the sanctions -- Baghdad and the red room -- Hawassim, the decisive battle -- The statue -- Bakunin In Baghdad -- The viceroy -- Of exiles and militias -- The rebellion -- Karbala -- A street In Baghdad -- Fallujah -- The collaterals -- The shrink -- Hameed -- Saddam's trial -- A civil war is born -- The spy -- The wedding -- The Baghdad morgue -- Migration, part 1 -- The Sunnis defeated -- The schoolteacher -- The Sadda -- Hassan -- The new leader -- The state of corruption -- Hassan And Maliki -- The Sunni Spring, Syria -- Enter the Jihadis -- The Sunni Spring, Iraqi version -- The Jihadi begin building a state -- We are coming to Baghdad and other delusions -- The collapse of the brave new army -- Fall of Mosul -- The Shia Mobilise to war -- Diala front lines -- The state -- The people resisting -- Migration, part 2 -- The colonel -- Ali's war -- Aftermath -- Life and tragedy return to Mosul

"An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"--