# Escape from Saddam

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- Book: [Escape from Saddam](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-alsamari/escape-from-saddam) ([Escape from Saddam.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-alsamari/escape-from-saddam.md))
- Authors: [Lewis Alsamari](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-alsamari)
- Publisher: crown
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0740-969-0
- Published: 2008-03-18
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

At the age of seventeen, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into Saddam Hussein’s army. The training was brutal, with discipline enforced by regular beatings, and desertion punishable by mutilation...