How do you cheer on your national football team when you're terrified to step outside your front door? What's it like to go to the shops when your biggest fear is being blown up by a suicide bomber? Or to risk being shot at a roadblock when you're driving your pregnant wife to hospital? Oliver Poole first arrived in Baghdad in 2003 in an American armoured vehicle, having witnessed first-hand the first weeks of fighting. The city would then became his home as it turned into one of the most dangerous places on earth. He ...
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How do you cheer on your national football team when you're terrified to step outside your front door? What's it like to go to the shops when your biggest fear is being blown up by a suicide bomber? Or to risk being shot at a roadblock when you're driving your pregnant wife to hospital? Oliver Poole first arrived in Baghdad in 2003 in an American armoured vehicle, having witnessed first-hand the first weeks of fighting. The city would then became his home as it turned into one of the most dangerous places on earth. He reveals how the war changed his life, and tragically altered that of his interpreter, Ahmed, and his family. He witnesses first-hand its bloody impact on the Iraqi people. Finally, he joins the masses escaping through Baghdad airport - and then campaigns relentlessly to try to save Ahmed and his family before they too are lost.
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