A sweeping story of loss, redemption, and fate that begins in 1982 during the bloody war between Iraq and Iran, when an Iranian child-soldier finds a young Iraqi soldier dying in a bunker and commits an astonishing act of bravery and kindness that changes the course of both their lives.An epic story of war, redemption, and hope. My Enemy, My Brother tells the incredible story of two men—one from Iraq, the other from Iran—who were destined to be mortal enemies, but instead found in each other mercy, kindness, and hope. Najah Aboud was conscripted in Iraq, in 1980, shortly after Saddam Hussein sent troops sweeping across the border—a disastrous attempt to overthrow Tehran's new government, led by Ayatollah Khomeini. In 1982, at age thirteen, Zahed Haftlang joined Iran's Basij paramilitary in Tehran's fight against neighbouring Iraq. The two young men found themselves fighting in one of the twentieth century's most brutal wars, a conflict...