Great post. Is that all of it? I had to copy it in to a Word doc. to read it fully at a later time. Is that part of a book or larger quote?
Copied all the text but there are pictures at the source if you click on the link. Not part of a book to my knowledge but the author, Edwin Black, has written a number of well received books, including two on Iraq, The Farhud: Roots of the Arab-Nazi Alliance in the Holocaust and Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit, and Conflict