"An award-winning journalist's powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twenty years of war"-- Provided by publisher.

My First War -- Mother Of All Battles -- The Years Of The Sanctions -- Baghdad And The Red Room -- Hawassim, The Decisive Battle -- The Statue -- Bakunin In Baghdad -- The Viceroy -- Of Exiles And Militias -- The Rebellion -- Karbala -- A Street In Baghdad -- Falluja -- The Collaterals -- The Shrink -- Hameed -- Saddam Trial -- A Civil War is Born -- The Spy -- The Wedding -- The Baghdad Morgue -- Migration, Part 1 -- The Defeat Of Hameed And Other Sunnis -- The School Teacher -- The Sadda -- Zaid -- The New Leader -- The State of Corruption -- Zaid And Maliki -- The Sunni Spring. Syria -- Enter The Jihadis -- The Sunni Spring, Iraqi Version -- The Jihadi begin Building A State -- We Are Coming O' Baghdad And Other Delusions -- The Collapse of The Brave New Army -- Fall Of Mosul -- The Shia Mobilise To War -- Diala Frontlines -- The State -- The People Resisting -- Migration Part 2 -- The Colonel -- Ali's War, Part I -- Ali's War, Part II -- Life And Tragedy Returns To Mosul.