Return to Baghdad

Travel with Cosette Laperruque, a teenager in 1957, as she moves with her family to Baghdad, Iraq, where she falls in love with a country and a man, General Ubaid Abdulla Al Mudhayifi, the forty-three-year-old commander of the Royal Bodyguard and recipient of the U.S. Medal of Honor. Move with them through the years as they live in England, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and numerous countries in between. In April, 1991, Cosette, alone, journeys to Baghdad on a humanitarian mission soon after Desert Storm. The trip, over damaged roads, surviving attempts to hijack the load of food and fuel, and travel over precarious bridges takes many hours, but her Iraqi family welcomes Cosette with open arms. Her trip back to Jordan in a small bus with the nationalities involved in Desert Storm, Jordanians, Iraqis, Saudi Arabians, Kuwaitis, and herself, a lone American woman, reinforces Cosette's faith in the resilience and basic humanity of all people.Laperruque, Cosette is the author of 'Return to Baghdad' with ISBN 9781592869770 and ISBN 1592869777.