Explains how Saddam Hussein rose from the Baath party to become leader of the most powerful state in the Arab world and how the international community reacted to a global threat it had not foreseen. This book draws on first-hand interviews with Saddam Hussein and reveals how the Iraqi leader had long nurtured superpower aspirations and how he dreamt of using a vast army, equipped with nuclear weapons, to dominate the region and threaten the outside world. The authors also describe how, under the banner of Arab nationalism, Saddam ruthlessly repressed his own people and bullied weaker neighbours to fufil his ambition of a new Iraqi empire with himself at the head.
- ISBN13 9780571163878
- Publish Date 19 February 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 December 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English