History of Iraq

Saddam: The Secret Life

By Con Coughlin

Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea, and our Difficulty Swallowing It

By Burch, Druin

Victor Two: Inside Iraq - The Successful SAS Mission

By Peter Crossland

Regime Change

By Christopher Hitchens

The Spymaster of Baghdad: The Untold Story of the Elite Intelligence Cell that Turned the Tide against ISIS

By Margaret Coker

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone

By Rajiv Chandrasekaran

A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the struggle that shaped the Middle East

By James Barr

Guardians of Shi'ism: Sacred Authority and Transnational Family Networks

By Elvire Corboz

Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Afghan Islamists Who Changed the World

By Chris Sands, Fazelminallah Qazizai

Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions

By Joy Gordon

Iraq: People, History, Politics

By Gareth Stansfield (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)

Cultural Cleansing in Iraq: Why Museums Were Looted, Libraries Burned and Academics Murdered

By Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael, Tareq Y. Ismael

The Longest War: Iran-Iraq Military Conflict

By Dilip Hiro

Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq

By Omar Dewachi

Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad

By David Zucchino

The First Great Powers: Babylon and Assyria

By Arthur Cotterell

Post-Saddam Iraq: New Realities, Old Identities, Changing Patterns

By Amnon Cohen, Noga Efrati

Quicksilver War: Syria, Iraq and the Spiral of Conflict

By William Harris

Shadow Wars: The Secret Struggle for the Middle East

By Christopher Davidson

Unfinished Business: An American Strategy for Iraq Moving Forward

By Kenneth M. Pollack, Raad Alkadiri, J. Scott Carpenter

Reforging a Forgotten History: Iraq and the Assyrians in the Twentieth Century

By Sargon Donabed

One Bullet Away: The making of a US Marine Officer

By Nathaniel Fick

Generation Kill

By Evan Wright

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

By Thomas E. Ricks

Three Kings in Baghdad: The Tragedy of Iraq's Monarchy

By Gerald De Gaury, Philip Mansel, Alan De Lacy Rush

The Way We Live Now: Dilemmas in Contemporary Culture

By Richard Hoggart

Soldier Five

By Mike Coburn

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

By Emma Sky

Pathfinder: A Special Forces Mission Behind Enemy Lines

By David Blakeley

The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire

By Amira K. Bennison (Cambridge University, UK)