Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq

This inspiring story tells of the efforts of Iraqi librarian Alia Muhammad Baker and her courageous fight to save books from the Basra Central Library during the war in 2003. Determined to preserve the irreplaceable records of the culture and history of the land on which she lives from the destruction of the war, Alia undertakes a courageous and extremely dangerous task of spiriting away 30,000 books from the library to a safe place.