Love in a torn land : one womans daring escape from Saddams poison gas attacks on the Kurdish people of Iraq /
By: Sasson, Jean P
Material type: BookPublisher: London : Bantam Books, c2007.Description: 431 p., [8] p. of plates : ill ; 18 cm.ISBN: 9780553818147Subject(s): Hussain, Joanna Al-Askari | Women -- Iraq -- Biography | Iran-Iraq War -- 1980-1988 -- Kurds -- Iraq | Iran-Iraq War -- 1980-1988 -- Atrocities -- Iraq | Iran-Iraq War -- 1980-1988 -- Personal narratives, IraqiItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 955.0542092 SA LO (Browse shelf) | Available | T0036018 |
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BBestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq./B One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin acirc;euro;~Chemical Ali' to bombard Joanna's village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape. Now living in the UK and working for British Airways, Joanna has told the story of her eventful life to Jean Sasson, the bestselling chronicler of oppressed women's lives in the IPrincess/Itrilogy and IMayada/I. ILove in a Torn Land/I is published while the world watches the trial of the notorious acirc;euro;~Chemical Ali', Saddam Hussein's most bloodthirsty henchman, for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people.