Baghdad Burning - A Young Woman's Diary from a War Zone
By Riverbend

We are offering a high discount due to slightly damageAbout The BookIn August 2003, a 25 year old Iraqi woman calling herself Riverbend provided eyewitness accounts of the bombings, Kidnappings and night-time raids by US soldiers that constitute daily life in Baghdad. Her journal has gathered a worldwide audience hungry for news unfiltered by the mainstream media.Both personal and political, Riverbend writes of the impact on her family, of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, of how the rights of women are falling victim to emergent fundamentalisms.Describing the reality of regime change in Iraq in a voice in turn outraged and witty, both hard-hitting and deeply moving, Riverbend bears witness to the events shaping the fate of her homeland.Foreword“I wish, says Riverbend, towards the end of her blog, “every person who emails me supporting the war, safe behind their computer, secure in their narrow mind and fixed views, could actually come and experience the war live. Baghdad Burning brings us as close to the war in Iraq as it's possible to be. And “close does not mean just knowing about electricity cuts and water shortages, about street battles and raids on homes; “close means right inside the heart and mind of a young Baghdadi woman as she lives through the war.Her career interrupted, her social life blown, “Riverbend decides to reach out and “blog her account of the war onto the Internet. “I looked for a rantlog, she says, “this is the best Google came up with ' But Baghdad Burning is far from being a rant; it is an articulate, sensitive, often witty, always brave narrative of what it is like to be Iraqi living in