Bad Men

by Clive Stafford Smith

Publication: First published 2007
ISBNs: 9780297853169, 9780297852216, 9780753822968

Orwell Prize 2008 · Shortlist

'Bad Men' is an explosively personal account of the United States detention facility at Guantanamo Bay by a British lawyer. Through the prisoners' stories he explores the steep human costs of fighting terrorism.

Prize history

Orwell Prize for Political Writing
2008

Orwell Prize for Books, before the 2019 split.

Shortlist

Orwell Prize for Political Writing 2008 shortlist

Palestinian Walks

Raja Shehadeh

Winner
The Islamist

Ed Husain
Two Caravans

Marina Lewycka
What’s Left?

Nick Cohen
Wild

Jay Griffiths
William Wilberforce

William Hague

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