Inside the Arab Nationalist Struggle: Memoirs of an Iraqi Statesman

On 14 July 1958, with the fall of the Hashemite monarchy in Iraq, a chapter of Iraq's history ended. In the wake of this revolution — a revolution that eventually brought to power the Ba'ath party of Saddam Hussein — the ancien regime of Iraq found itself both persecuted and imprisoned. Mohammed Fadhel Jamali, a former foreign minister and prime minister of Iraq, was no exception. In this remarkable firsthand account of his time in power he reveals the diplomatic wrangling at the heart of t...