Prisoner in His Palace

The Prisoner in His Palace is an evocative and thought-provoking account of how the lives of twelve young American soldiers deployed to Iraq are upended when they're asked to guard the most ';high-value detainee' of all, the notorious dictator Saddam Hussein. What the self-dubbed ';Super Twelve' experience in the autumn of 2006 is cognitive dissonance at its most extreme. Expecting to engage with...