- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: BBC Books (12 Jun 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0563487879
- ISBN-13: 978-0563487876
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.4 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 603,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It's said that the first casualty in a war is truth, as both sides jostle to defend their positions. In the Iraq war, the BBC deployed an unrivalled team of correspondents to cover the complex issues involved and to seek out the truth. For this book, top correspondents, including John Simpson, Rageh Omaar and Fergal Keane, have written a series of incisive and accessible essays which guide the reader through each stage of the Iraq crisis. The book also contains first-hand accounts from the front lines. Some BBC correspondents, such as Ben Brown and Gavin Hewitt, were "embedded" with US and British troops; they provide unique snapshots of combat and the hazards of reporting through the "fog of war". Title guides the reader through each stage of the crisis, from the evolution of American policy after 9/11, through the diplomatic and political confrontation in the run-up to war, to the campaign itself and the prospects for Iraq's post-war reconstruction.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
One of a glut,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Battle for Iraq: BBC News Correspondents on the War Against Saddam and a New World Agenda (Paperback)
Reading this book, one is shocked by how far the BBC had moved from the days when its correspondents were experts in their own right. Rageh Omaar - exposed by the Times as a sycophant towards the Iraqi regime - makes great play of the fact he had been to Iraq five times: his 'diary' is written as if looking out from from his hotel room. The pieces by Jim Muir and Evan Davis are the pick of the crop, the material from the 'embedded' reporters rather silly. John Simpson for some reason gives a potted history of Saddam Hussein (if you want to know what made Saddam tick read the biography by Said Aburish). There is a glut of current books on the Iraq war (the Telegraph's and Reuters are much better than this one), adding insult to the injury of the blanket media coverage that followed decades of ignoring Saddam Hussein's crimes. Where were all these people when young men were being mown down in the Iran-Iraq war, when 4500 Kurdish villages were destroyed and when the Shia of southern Iraq were butchered? And where are the journalists - like David Hirst of the Guardian and the film-maker Gwynn Roberts - who did tell the world what was happening in those days? Have they been pushed aside by people who look better on television?
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Slicing through the fog,
By Jo Owen (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Battle for Iraq: BBC News Correspondents on the War Against Saddam and a New World Agenda (Paperback)
What a surprise.I was ready to be disappointed with such an instant book on a subject where the dust still has not settled back into the desert. But this is a book which displays the best of the BBC: balance and insight. It is a series of reports from some of the best BBC reporters. It is less a narrative of the war, (which would be tedious): it is more a series of insights on the whole episode, written from different perspectives: Iraqi, American, British, French, economic, military, diplomatic. The book will probably be hated by people who prefer opinions to facts, hype to analysis and prejudice to balance. But I found that this is a useful reference point amidst the increasing fog of argument that is engulfing the conflict and its aftermath. Each chapter is short enough to be accessible, long enough to offer insight. This book reflects the standards we always used to identify with the BBC. Let's hope they keep it up.
8 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent...an Iraqi says so!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Battle for Iraq: BBC News Correspondents on the War Against Saddam and a New World Agenda (Paperback)
As an Iraqi, i found this an excellent account of the events leading to the Gulf war, with thoughtful and revealing insights into the two men in the boxing ring, Saddam and George Jr. Thoroughly recommend this for everyone to read
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