Opening book details…
Can I read Thieves of Baghdad : one marine's passion for ancient civilizations and the journey to recover the world's greatest stolen treasures on EtoBox?
Thieves of Baghdad : one marine's passion for ancient civilizations and the journey to recover the world's greatest stolen treasures by Matthew Bogdanos; William Patrick is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Thieves of Baghdad : one marine's passion for ancient civilizations and the journey to recover the world's greatest stolen treasures about?
Thieves of Baghdad is a riveting account of Colonel Matthew Bogdanos and his team's extraordinary efforts to recover over 5,000 priceless antiquities stolen from the Iraqi National Museum after the fall of Baghdad. A mixture of police procedural, treasure hunt, war-time thriller, and cold-eyed assessment of the international black market in stolen art, Thieves of Baghdad also explores the soul of a truly remarkable a soldier, a father, and a passionate, dedicated scholar. Matthew Bogdanos has been an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan since 1988-where New York tabloids call him "pit bull" for his relentless prosecution of criminals such as the 15-year-old "Baby-Faced Butchers" for their 1997 grisly Central Park murder and rappers Sean "P. Diddy" Combs and Jamal "Shyne" Barrows for their 1999 shootout. A colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, middleweight boxer, and native New Yorker, he was raised waiting tables in his family's Greek restaurant in lower Manhattan and holds a classics degree from Bucknell University, a law degree and a master's degree in classics from Columbia University, and a master's degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War College. Commissioned a
Who reads Thieves of Baghdad : one marine's passion for ancient civilizations and the journey to recover the world's greatest stolen treasures?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Matthew Bogdanos; William Patrick
- Publisher
- New York, NY: Bloomsbury Pub.: Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781596919846
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Memoir, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.44 / 5 (205 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
More by Matthew Bogdanos; William Patrick
Browse all works by Matthew Bogdanos; William Patrick
Similar books
- Priceless : How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures — Wittman, Robert K., Shiffman, John (2010)
- The Looting of the Iraq Museum, Baghdad : the Lost Treasures of Ancient Mesopotamia — edited by Milbry Polk and Angela M.H. Schuster (2005)
- Ancient Civilizations (Journey Through) — Roger Coote (1991)
- The World's Greatest Crimes of Passion (World's Greatest) — Tim Healey (1990)
- The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of Ancient Egypt — M. Clement Hall & Charles River Hall (2013)
- Guide to the World's Greatest Treasures — Ted Streuli Michael Bradley (2005)