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Under Fire: Untold Stories from the Front Line of the Iraq War

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The title of this work is very misleading. I was hoping to read about ordinary troops in extraordinary combat situations. I was hoping to read about events that may have been classified but were then declassified to the public. Instead, what I read was a highly slanted liberal-biased approach to the Iraq War. I read more about how horrible the conditions were for the reporters than anything else. I listened to them drone on about the deficincies of embedded reporting.

If they wished to write about embedded reporters during the war, that's fine. But maybe next time they should change the title, and keep all political and cultural biases out. If you wish to know more about the war and the troops who fought it, I recommend "War Stories' by Oliver North.

The reasoning for three stars? Well, minus the misleading title, it was well written, covers many aspects of the war, and is a fairly easy read. But since I'm not interested in how a reporter had sand in his hair for 25 days, I can't give it a higher rating.