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Baghdad is burning! The beautiful Iraqi capital, built by Al-Mansur in 762 AD, is experiencing its twelfth fall! It is plundered, trampled on by Marines' boots, and its inhabitants are surrendered to the law of the jungle, where identity-based killing and kidnapping exist. Murderers and thieves roam free. Amidst all this devastation, the narrator tries in vain to continue his life with the same routine, not knowing that his life will be turned upside down with the sudden appearance of a strange man. All Iraqis changed after April 9, 2003, but the revolution that happened in the narrator's life exceeds all imagination. How could he have known that former Marine Daniel Brooks had waited many years for the opportunity to take the risk of coming to Baghdad to meet him himself? Why did the two have to meet despite the countries, seas and oceans that separated them: the American who was born in the state of Louisiana on the Mississippi River and grew up in New York, and the narrator who was born in a city on the Euphrates River in western Iraq and later grew up on the banks of the Tigris in Baghdad? Baghdad... Marlboro The novel that draws us in from the beginning, with its adventures and secrets, narrates thirty-seven years of modern Iraqi history. It begins four years after the First Gulf War in September 1980 and ends in December 2011 in Fort Meade, a small city and American military fortress where the trial of Marine Bradley Maninke, accused of treason for handing over secret documents during his service in Iraq, takes place. WikiLeaks website. Iraqi novelist Najm Wali, translated His works have been translated into many international languages. In this novel, he continues his project of writing the history of modern Iraqi hell. Baghdad Marlborough is the winning novel of the Austrian Bruno Kreisky International Prize for Political Book for the year 2014, and it also reached the final list of the Jan Michaliski International Prize for Literature in Switzerland in 2015. Baghdad Marlborough is The first publication of the complete works of the writer Najm Wali in Dar Al-Rafidain.