Iraq: A War [Paperback]

Associated Press (Photographer), Chris Hedges (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2006

Risking their lives, intrepid journalists and photographers have labored in often desperate conditions to bring images of war-torn Iraq to the rest of the world. Since no war in US history has had more carefully managed press coverage than this one, their more controversial and moving efforts have gone largely unreported in the United States. Now, here are the pictures Americans have not seen: An Iraqi boy trying to study with a bandaged eye; the bullet-riddled tail of a Red Crescent vehicle; American soldiers and Iraqi citizens alike praying; mass graves; brothers kneeling over dead brothers; babies in coffins; bloody body parts kept on ice. Each picture suggests the world and lives beyond the edges of the frame; together they show the true face of the US occupation of Iraq.

The Associated Press staff was recognized by the 2005 Pulitzer Prize "for its stunning series of photographs of the bloody yearlong combat inside Iraqi cities." Whether they set their sights on triumphant US soldiers relaxing in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces or on the injured Iraqi woman whose ambulance they shared, these photographers have brought home the horror and fear of war, and the reminder that we are all flesh and blood.

The Associated Press photographers featured include: Mohammad Adnan, J. Scott Applewhite, Jean-Marie Bouju, Gregorio Borgia, David Cheskin, Dan Chung, Pier Paolo Cito, D. Myles Cullen, Bassem Daham, Saurabh Das, Jerome Delay, Kevin Frayer, Sergie Grits, David Guttenfelder, Bilal Hussein, Nabil al-Jurani, Karim Kadim, Saeed Khan, Wathiq Khuzaie, Sasa Kralj, Brennan Linsley, Efrem Lukatsky, Jim MacMillan, Hussein Malla, Alaa al-Marjani, Jon Mills, Richard Mills, Hadi Mizban, Samir Mizban, Khalid Mohammed, John Moore, Muhammad Muheisen, Tony Nicoletti, Anja Niedringhaus, Kamal Osman, Andrew Parsons, Laura Rauch, Laurent Rebours, Terry Richards, Ivan Sekretarev, Bassem Tellawi, Mohammed Uraibi, Stefan Zaklin, and Alexander Zemlianichenko.

Product Details

• Paperback: 158 pages
• Publisher: Olive Branch Press (November 15, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1566566487
• ISBN-13: 978-1566566483
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,184,483 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chris Hedges is a cultural critic and author who was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio. He reported from Latin American, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, is the author of the bestsellers American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for his book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He is a Senior Fellow at The Nation Institute and writes an online column for the web site Truthdig. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto.