The Long Road to Baghdad

Now available in paperback, this sweeping and authoritative narrative is essential reading in the study of the conflict in Iraq that has plagued the first decade of the 20th century. A unique and thorough study, it places the Iraq War in the context of US foreign policy since Vietnam, casting the conflict as a chapter in a much broader story of US and allied forces' diplomatic and military moves in the region. In a disturbing account, Gardner shows how the Iraq War is a necessary outcome of doomed US policies.

Lloyd C. Gardner is Research Professor of History at Rutgers University and the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Pay Any Price: Lyndon Johnson and the Wars for Vietnam and Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam (available from The New Press). He lives in Newtown, Pennsylvania