Al-Abadi, Haider, Impossible
Victory, How Iraq Defeated ISIS, Croydon: Biteback Publishing, 2022
Impossible Victory, How
Iraq Defeated ISIS is an
autobiography written by former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. It was
probably ghost written and starts off like a personalized version of government
press releases. Abadi paints himself as an underdog who always had to fight
against the odds from becoming the leader of Iraq to the war against the
Islamic State. That’s all to be expected, but when the war begins the book becomes
a re-writing of history as he omits and glosses over all the problems and
abuses that occurred during the conflict.