Deconstructing A Dictator: Saddam Hussein

di Reid Callahan (Autore)

Martin Sherrill (Narratore)

TFG Networks, 2026

Saddam Hussein’s story begins far from the palaces, parades, and statues that later surrounded him. He was a fatherless boy from a poor village near Tikrit, shaped by hardship, tribal loyalty, political violence, and a lesson he never forgot: power belonged to those ruthless enough to seize it. From the shadows of the Ba’ath Party, he rose through assassination plots, exile, prison, coups, and security work until fear became his greatest weapon. By the time he took the presidency, Iraq was already wrapped in a web of informants, prisons, purges, and loyalty tests that made betrayal real and imagined almost impossible to escape. His rule brought oil wealth, modernization, schools, roads, and national ambition, but it also brought war on a staggering scale. Iran, the Kurds, Kuwait, sanctions, chemical attacks, ruined cities, and shattered families became part of the price Iraq paid for one man’s paranoia and hunger for glory. The ending was almost unthinkable: the ruler who filled a nation with his image dragged from a hole in the ground, tried before the world, and sent to the gallows. Yet Saddam’s fall did not end Iraq’s suffering, because the forces he manipulated, brutalized, and left behind continued to shape the country long after his statues came down.

• Autore: Reid Callahan
• Narratore: Martin Sherrill
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 02:58:32
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: TFG Networks
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 1230010428108