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An unprecedented account of life in Baghdad’s Green Zone, a walled-off enclave of towering plants, posh villas, and sparkling swimming pools that was the headquarters for the American occupation of Iraq.

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Winners)
The Baillie Gifford Prize is the UK’s leading award for non-fiction, open to books in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography and the arts. Founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, its winners run from Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain. This list collects the winning books by year.

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Imperial Life in the Emerald City

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