The Iraq War: As Witnessed by the Correspondents and Photographers of United Press International

by Martin Walker

"Washington Post" publisher Phillip Graham famously remarked that "journalists write the first rough draft of history." Martin Walker, United Press International's chief diplomatic correspondent, has collected some of the best writing on the events leading up to the Iraq War, detailed descriptions of combat operations of each day of the war, and firsthand accounts of the conflict's immediate aftermath. Walker presents the war precisely as it was reported...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157488798X
• ISBN13: 9781574887983
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Potomac Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant war journalism

This is a terrific compendium of Iraq war reporting from the staff of UPI. They had guys with the US Marines, with the Brits as the Royal Scots Dragoons and the Irish Guards took Basra (to the skirl of bagpipes), with Special Forces in the North and on the aircraft carriers, at the air bases and in the headquarters in Washington, Kuwait and Qatar. They also had their own (Arab) reporters inside Baghdad under the bombs. Margaret Thatcher writes the introduction and gives the book high praise; she is right (as always). They also stopped and thought and wrote a long epilogue on why this might not have been the right war at the right time with the right results. Great writing and thinking from one of the world's great news agencies.