The Occupation
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The Occupation by Patrick Cockburn
In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled to Iraq, and has covered the war from Baghdad. Here, he describes the fighting on the ground as Saddam Hussein's armies collapsed, the looting of Baghdad, the failure of the US occupation, and the emergence of the resistance into uprising. He also paints a portrait of daily life in Baghdad under siege.
Cockburn's eye for the telling detail lifts The Occupation above the usual journalist's account of the Iraq war* New York Times *
Cockburn's account of the evolving conflict ... is informed by his keen personal observations and understanding of the complexities and horrors of daily life in Iraq. * Library Journal *
Of the raft of books about the calamitous mismanagement of the intervention in Iraq, The Occupation is probably the most readable and certainly the only one that-even if only in the driest possible way-manages to be amusing. -- Christopher Hitchens * Slate *
Required reading ... a masterpiece of journalism. -- A N Wilson * Evening Standard *
Cockburn will be read when the rest of us are long forgotten. * The Times *
Cockburn's account of the evolving conflict ... is informed by his keen personal observations and understanding of the complexities and horrors of daily life in Iraq. * Library Journal *
Of the raft of books about the calamitous mismanagement of the intervention in Iraq, The Occupation is probably the most readable and certainly the only one that-even if only in the driest possible way-manages to be amusing. -- Christopher Hitchens * Slate *
Required reading ... a masterpiece of journalism. -- A N Wilson * Evening Standard *
Cockburn will be read when the rest of us are long forgotten. * The Times *
Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. His work on the crisis in the Middle East include the National Book Circle Awards- shortlisted The Occupation and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (with Andrew Cockburn), The best-selling The Rise of the Islamic State and The Age of Jihad. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009. More recently he has been awarded Foreign Commentator of the Year at the 2013 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year in British Journalism Award 2014, and Foreign Reporter of the Year in Press Awards 2014.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844671007 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844671003 |
| Title | The Occupation |
| Author | Patrick Cockburn |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2006-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 229 |
| Prizes | Commended for National Book Critics Circle Award (Nonfiction) 2006 |
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