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The Broken Boy is an engaging memoir about Patrick Cockburn's own childhood experience of polio and a forgotten epidemic. A new introduction by the author draws parallels between the 1956 polio epidemic in Cork, the last great polio epidemic in the world, and the ongoing global pandemic of Covid-19.

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First published by Verso as War in the age of Trump."--Title page verso.

In this urgent and timely book, Patrick Cockburn writes the first draft of the history of the current crisis in the Middle East. Here he charts the period from the recapture of Mosul in 2017 to Turkey's attack on Kurdish territory in November 2019, and recounts the new phase in the wars of disintegration that have plagued the region, leading to the assassination of Iranian General Sulemani. Cockburn offers panoramic on-the-ground analysis as w...

Though capable of staging spectacular attacks like 9/11, jihadist organizations were not a significant force on the ground when they first became notorious in the shape of al-Qa'ida at the turn of century. //Today, that's changed. Exploiting the missteps of the West's wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, as well as its misjudgments in relation to Syria and the uprisings of the Arab Spring, jihadist organizations, of which ISIS is the most impo...

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An expose of the internal feuds in the CIA that doomed the secret operations to bring down Saddam Hussein. The authors are investigative journalists who covered the story from inside Iraq. They offer insights into the psyche of Saddam and his family, bodyguards and extended tribal family, as well as his weapons of mass destruction.

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An achingly honest, harrowing, and resonant dual memoir by a British journalist and his son, about his son's sudden descent into schizophrenia

From one of the bravest and most experienced correspondents in the Middle East, this is the first biography of the formidable Shiite resistance leader destined to shape the future of post-occupation Iraq.

The essential 'on the ground' report on the fastest growing new threat in the Middle East. 'Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today' Seymour Hersh

The award-winning "Independent" journalist charts the collapse of the Middle East and the rise of Islamic State. Exposes the dominant conflict of our time, the Sunni-Shia war.

At the end of the Gulf War, the White House was confident that Saddam Hussein's days as Iraq's dictator were numbered. His army had been routed, his country had been bombed back into a pre-industrial age, his subjects were in bloody revolt, and his borders were sealed. World leaders waited confidently for the downfall of the pariah of Baghdad. Almost a decade later, they are still waiting.This is the first in-depth account of what went wrong. ...