Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East

Apr 29, 2008

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Quil Lawrence tells the story of the Kurds, the only Iraqi ethnic group that want the Americans to stay. Divided among Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria and numbering 25 million, the Kurds are the largest ethnic group without their own nation.

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