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

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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.