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The War We Could Not Stop: The Real Story of the Battle for Iraq

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This book was written by the journalists of a British daily newspaper and to be honist the title is probably geared to the rather anti war population in the UK. I read the book when it first came about in the UK about 9 months ago and at the time it was one of the first books that provided detailed coverage of the war through the eyes of different reporters in the field. Basically the book is a bunch of expanded articles that were written for the paper by the reporters in the field. The book focuses on both the lead up to he war and the actual war. As the reporters were UK based I think they provided a UK bias in their reporting, which is an interesting slant given the view is probably closer to the overall view in the EU then of American reporters.

The reporting of the political situation is geared to UK politicians and for me I found this of average interest. What I think the book did the best at was the embedded reporters stories of field combat. What was surprising to me based on the title of the book and the organization that put it out, the field reporting seemed to cover just what was taking place without a lot of anti war bias. It also provides some interesting views of what the British troops were doing. Overall it is an interesting book, but not the full story nor the only book to read on the war.