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The prisoner in his palace : Saddam Hussein, his American guards, and what history leaves unsaid / Will Bardenwerper.

by Bardenwerper, William.

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Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, 2017.

956.70443 B245p

Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Imprisonment.

Hussein, Saddam, 1937-2006 -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Prisoners and prisons.

Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Personal narratives, American.

9781501117831 (hc.)

First Scribner hardcover edition.

xix, 246 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-236) and index.

"An insightful and surprisingly intimate portrait of Saddam Hussein lifts away a layer of the dictator's evil and finds complexity beneath as we take a journey with twelve young American soldiers in the summer of 2006. Trained to aggressively confront the enemy in combat, the men learn that fate has assigned them a different role. It becomes their job to guard the country's notorious leader in the months leading to his execution. Living alongside, and caring for, their "high value detainee" in a former palace dubbed The Rock and regularly transporting him to his raucous trial, many of the men begin questioning some of their most basic assumptions - about the judicial process, Saddam's character, and the morality of modern war. Woven from first-hand accounts provided by many of the American guards, government officials, interrogators, scholars, spies, lawyers, family members, and victims, The Prisoner in His Palace shows two Saddams coexisting in one person: the defiant tyrant who uses torture and murder as tools, and a shrewd but contemplative prisoner who exhibits surprising affection, dignity, and courage in the face of looming death."--Provided by publisher.

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