{"product_id":"9781035052172","title":"Occupational Hazards","description":"\u003cp\u003eA fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq. From Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.   `Devastating' - The Sunday Times`Absolutely absorbing' - Ken LoachBy September 2003, six months after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the anarchy had begun. Rory Stewart, then a young British diplomat, was appointed as the Coalition Provisional Authority's deputy governor of a province of 850,000 people in the southern marshland region. There, he and his colleagues confronted gangsters, Iranian-linked politicians, tribal vendettas and a full Islamist insurgency.   Occupational Hazards is Rory Stewart's inside account of the attempt to rebuild a nation, the errors made, the misunderstandings and insurmountable difficulties encountered.   It reveals an Iraq hidden from most foreign journalists and soldiers, a rare and compelling insight that remains just as important today.   `An extraordinarily vivid tale' - The Guardian`Wonderfully observed, wise, evocative' - The Observer\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55732057276792,"sku":"9781035052172","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781035052172.jpg?v=1794267925","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781035052172","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}