Book description
Tony Blair always claimed that history would judge his decision to
invade Iraq.
This revelatory and at times jaw-dropping account of the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan reveals the truth about our soldiers' battle for
survival. Jack Fairweather details the cost of the war, set agaisnt a
backdrop of misunderstanding, beaurocracy and an overwhelming clash of cultures.
From the embattled British outposts and insurgent hideouts of
southern Iraq to the intense debates the war provoked inside 10
Downing Street and the Whitehouse, here is the terrifying truth about
Britain's involvement in Iraq.
Jack Fairweather is an expert on the American and British military
campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, recent defence policy in both
countries, and the issues surrounding humanitarian intervention in the
Middle East. He is currently a fellow of the Centre for Middle Eastern
Studies, Harvard University and was the
Daily Telegraph
's Baghdad and Gulf correspondent for five years. As an embedded
reporter during the Iraq invasion, he and his team won the Best Team
Reporting award at the British Press Awards. Most recently he has been
the
Washington Post
's Islamic world correspondent and a senior editor at the
Solutions Journal
. He received his BA and MA in English Literature from Lincoln College,
Oxford.
