فهرست

Author’s Introduction ● Early Life in Iraq ● Moving to Iran ● In Iran Before the War ● The Invasion ● More and More Dead ● Search for Help ● MIGs and Dogs ● Transporting Bodies ● The Death of Father ● Yearning to Go to the Front ● More Bodies—More Martyrs ● The Death of Ali ● Where Ali Died and the New Clinic ● Refugees and Evil Zahra ● The Girls Beg to Stay ● The Desert Hospital ● Life Along the Shatt ● Eggs ● Visiting the War Room ● Abadan ● Suspicious Characters ● Iraqi Prisoners ● Sar Bandar ● A Needless Death ● Evacuating Arab People ● Fed Up and Unnerved ● The Iraqi Encirclement Grows Tighter ● Heavy Fighting, Paralyzed, Evacuated ● Almost Executed ● Visits with Leaders ● Move to Tehran ● Run-In with the Hypocrites ● Audience with Ayatollah Khomenei ● Assassination of Dr Beheshti ● Marriage and Liberation of Khorramshahr ● Life Returns to Devastated Khorramshahr ● Abdollah’s Close Call ● Hoseyn Eidi Dies ● Family Transitions ● Final Chapter ● Names, Places, and Terms ● About the Translator