The Prisoner in His Palace

I have to start by saying this book irritated me. Mostly because it try's to make Saddam Hussein into some kind of caring family man and almost vindicates some of his atrocious acts.
Its the story of 12 guards who had the unfortunate job of watching and guarding Saddam leading up to his trial for war crimes after being captured.
The book did not evolve the guards personality enough or Saddam and all I kept thinking was this man is a manipulative moron - while the book would tell you how charismatic he was towards the guards etc and seemed to skip out a lot of his actual crimes and story. 200 pages just wasn't enough and so made it vague throughout.