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100			_aSasson, Jean _92473
245			_aLove in a torn land: one woman's daring escape from Saddam's poison gas attacks on the Kurdish people of Iraq
260			_bBantam Books _aLondon _c2007
300			_a417 p.
365			_aINR _b399.00
520			_aBestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's poison gas attacks on the Kurdish people of Iraq. One morning Joanna, a young bride living in the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, was surprised to see dead birds drop silently out of the clear sky. They were followed by sinister canisters falling to the ground, bringing fear and death. It was 1987, and Saddam Hussein had ordered his cousin 'Chemical Ali' to bombard Joanna's village, Bergalou, with chemical weapons. Temporarily blinded in the attack, Joanna was rescued by her husband, a Kurdish freedom fighter. After being caught in another bombardment and left for dead in the rubble, they managed to flee over the mountains in a harrowing escape.
650			_aWomen _94351
650			_aIraq _92705
650			_aAtrocities _94352
650			_aBiography _91623
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