Johnson Kirk W. To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind 9781476710495

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Автор: Johnson Kirk W.
Название: To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind
ISBN: 9781476710495
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Классификация: ISBN-10: 147671049X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 07.10.2014
Язык: English
Размер: 218 x 145 x 25
Поставляется из: США
Описание: The searing (The New Yorker), must read (The Philadelphia Inquirer) memoir of one of the few genuine heroes of America s war in Iraq (Dexter Filkins).
In January 2005 Kirk Johnson, then twenty-four, arrived in Baghdad as USAID s (US Agency for International Development) only Arabic-speaking American employee. Despite his opposition to the war, Johnson felt called to civic duty and wanted to help rebuild Iraq. Working as the USAID s first reconstruction coordinator in Fallujah, he traversed the city s IED-strewn streets, working alongside idealistic Iraqi translators young men and women sick of Saddam, filled with Hollywood slang, and enchanted by the idea of a peaceful, democratic Iraq. It was not to be. As sectarian violence escalated, Iraqis employed by the US coalition found themselves subject to a campaign of kidnapping, torture, and assassination.
On his first brief vacation, Johnson, swept into what doctors later described as a fugue state, crawled onto the ledge outside his hotel window and plunged off. He would spend the next year in an abyss of depression, surgery, and PTSD crushed by having failed in Iraq. One day, Johnson received an email from an Iraqi friend, Yaghdan: People are trying to kill me and I need your help. That email launched Johnson s now seven-year mission to get help from the US government for Yaghdan and thousands of abandoned Iraqis like him.
To Be a Friend Is Fatal is Kirk W. Johnson s truly incredible (Ira Glass) portrait of the human rubble of war and his efforts to redeem a shameful chapter of American history. It is difficult to imagine a book more urgent than this (The Boston Globe).

To Be a Friend Is Fatal: The Fight to Save the Iraqis America Left Behind, Johnson Kirk W.