The archives of Saddam Hussein’s regime between historical sources and subjects

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Review of: The Seizure of Saddam Hussein’s Archive of Atrocity, Bruce P. Montgomery (2019)Maryland, MD: Lexington Books, 258 pp.,ISBN 978-1-49855-697-2, h/bk, $95ISBN 978-1-49855-698-9, e/bk, $90State of Repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein, Lisa Blaydes (2018)Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 376 pp.,ISBN 978-0-69118-027-4, h/bk, $35ISBN 978-0-69121-175-6, p/bk, $24.95Compulsion in Religion: Saddam Hussein, Islam, and the Roots of Insurgencies in Iraq, Samuel Helfont (2018)New York: Oxford University Press, 304 pp.,ISBN 978-0-19084-331-1, h/bk, $38.95ISBN 978-0-19084-331-4, e/bk, $38.95