These books offer interesting information about the real history of the modern state of Iraq.
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by
The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
by
Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
by Georgina Howell
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