From the November 2010 Issue Eastern Promise Late for Tea at the Deer Palace: The Lost Dreams of my Iraqi Family By Tamara Chalabi When God Made Hell: The British Invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq 1914–1921 By Charles Townshend LR
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