- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Praeger Publishers Inc (30 Sep 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0275992438
- ISBN-13: 978-0275992439
- Product Dimensions: 56.6 x 36.8 x 2.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,742,797 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The author travelled to Baghdad as a peace activist just before the U.S. invasion in 2003 and again later as a freelance reporter to cover the impact of the war on ordinary Iraqis. The result is a compellingly human perspective." -
Booklist Core Collection: The Iraq War, Four Years In
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Mike Ferner, a peace activist and journalist from Ohio, travelled to Baghdad twice, once just before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and once again a year later. In this book, he profiles the peace activists, soldiers, journalists, and ordinary Iraqis he met during his two extended visits to what became known as the Red Zone, the area outside the protected Green Zone enclave. He provides a rare inside look into the daily life of Iraqis before and after the war as well as a collective profile of segments of the contemporary American peace movement that has thus far been hidden from public view. These stories have been gathered on the streets of Baghdad and farming villages in the Sunni Triangle, not from the lobby of a five-star hotel, nor from behind the tinted windows of an armoured SUV. We meet western peace activists, and are also given an unvarnished view of everyday people in Iraq - cab drivers, an unemployed engineer, a newspaper editor, farmers in a rural village - all living their lives as normally as possible in the cauldron their country has become. The book goes beyond the usual portrayal of Iraqis in the western media - as casualties, victims, grieving parents, and shell-shocked children - to show them as "people just like us."
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Especially recommended for public lending libraries., 8 May 2007
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This review is from: Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran for Peace Reports from Iraq (Hardcover)
INSIDE THE RED ZONE: A VETERAN FOR PEACE REPORTS FROM IRAQ provides an account by a peace activist and journalist who visited the country just before the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and again a year later, visiting ordinary Iraqis, peace activists, soldiers and others working in the country. The result is a hard-hitting set of stories of a country often hidden from American view: accounts chronicling the daily life of Iraqis both urban and rural. INSIDE THE RED ZONE is essential for any thorough understanding of the psyche and structure of the nation, and is especially recommended for public lending libraries.
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