bustan: the middle east book review 186 History and Public Policy Program staff to introduce each batch of records. Following the completion of this project, the Wilson Center will add the trove of CRRC records Moorhead and I gathered to the Digital Archive as well, granting interested Americans, Iraqis, and anyone else anywhere in the world with an internet connection access to the valuable historical records that were central to The Achilles Trap. As Coll states in “A Note on Sources” following the conclu- sion of his book, “It is long past time for the White House and Department of Defense to release the full archive and make it accessible to global researchers, with procedures in place to protect vulnerable individuals.” 26 The Achilles Trap will be of interest to scholars and general readers alike. For anyone interested in the history of American involvement in Iraq over the previous decades, it is essential reading. It will also be of interest to schol- ars interested in the history of Iraq, the modern Middle East, US foreign pol- icy, nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation efforts, intelligence, and the inner workings of dictatorships, for which they will be hard pressed to find a case study with better documentation. Expecting captured records to vindi- cate its case for the 2003 Iraq War, the Bush administration instead had them document in detail the reasons why its various rationales were wrong. Coll’s book stands as an example and open invitation to continue mining these valuable historical sources for their full scholarly potential. Michael Brill, Princeton University, Global Fellow in the History and Public Policy Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Non-Resident Fellow at the United States Air Force Academy’s Institute for Future Conflict, mbrill@princeton.edu https://doi.org/./bustan... Elizabeth Perego Humor and Power in Algeria, 1920 to 2021 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ),  pp. :  Laughter in the face of terrorism? Algeria’s civil war of the 1990s was certainly one of the most brutal conflicts of the last decades in the Arab world, so laughter might be the last thing we associate with this “Black 26. Coll, The Achilles Trap, 491.