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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq- when the ad went around calling for volunteers. Appalled at what she saw as a wrongful war- she signed up- expecting to be gone for months. Instead- her time in Iraq spanned a decade- and became a personal odyssey so unlikely that it could be a work of fiction. Quickly made civilian representative of the CPA in Kirkuk- and then political advisor to General Odierno- Sky became valued for her outspoken voice and the unique perspective she offered as an outsider. In her intimate- clear-eyed memoir of her time in Iraq- a young British woman among the men of the US military- Emma Sky provides a vivid portrait of this most controversial of interventions- exploring how and why the Iraq project failed....