*Land Between the Rivers*

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The author is Bartle Bull, and the subtitle is A 5,000-Year History of Iraq.  Excerpt:

Another is the extraordinary length of what might be called an East-West conflict in Iraq.  The Roman-Persian wars lasted from 54 BC until 628 AD.  Nine centuries later a version of the conflict resumed, when the Ottoman Turks made Constantinople again the capital of a strong empire, taking on much of the organization of the Second Rome; and when Iran’s Safavid Empire saw Persia at least whole and imperial once more for the first time since the Muslim invasions of the seventh century AD.  The Ottoman-Persian wars, adding an additional layer of Sunni versus Shia, lasted from 1507 until 1823.  More than anywhere else, these conflicts took place in Iraq.  An expansive view would have them beginning on Iraq’s soil with Alexander the Great in 331 BC and continuing well into the twenty-first century.

A good book I thought.

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