The Wrong Place -- The Mud House -- The Dry Mulberry -- One Drop of Blood -- The Tobacco Farm -- A Stray Black Dog -- Escape -- Saryas Camp -- Two Hotheaded Men -- Winds of Death -- The Second Camp -- Return -- Shining Shoes -- Revenge -- A Poisonous Legacy -- The Second Exodus -- Hunger -- The Wrong Colour -- Homemade Guns -- My First Words in English -- Shortwave Radio -- Meeting My Hero -- Looking for a Job -- One Spy Among Many -- The Last War -- Crossing a River -- Chasing the Front Line -- Thank You, Mr. Bush -- Thieves or American Allies? -- Inside Saddam's House -- My First Time in Baghdad -- The Prison Town -- A Dream Come True -- Disturbing the Bones -- Marshes and Shrines -- Driving in the Wrong Country -- Smugglers Between Heaven and Hell -- Picking Up the Pieces -- They Came to Baghdad -- Feasting on Scraps -- The Honeymoon Ends -- My Name is Osama -- Silent Grief -- A Family Doomed -- From Insurgency to Civil War -- Wild Rabbits -- Settling Old Scores -- Back to Square One -- Lucky Survivor -- The Red Zone -- Out of the Ashes -- The Impending Split -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology of Historical Events
Summary
The author writes about growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, family members dying in a chemical attack, civil war, living in refugee camps, years of starvation that followed UN sanctions, living through the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, and the collapse of Saddam Hussein's totalitarian rule, as well as discussing the history behind the Kurds being denied a country of their own and the ascent of ISIS
