This is a collection of deeply emotional and highly personal accounts of covering the Iraq War.
Many of the world's top war correspondents and photographers speak candidly about life on the battlefield. Here are articulate and heartfelt descriptions of fear and firefights, of bullets and banalities, of risking death and meeting deadlines. With over sixty interviews Katovsky and Carlson allowed these journalists to step outside their professional role as journalists and examine the lethal allure of combat reporting. Each interview maps its own personal path and narrative arc, while presenting an emotional window to war and reporting. Taken individually, each offers a unique view of the most-covered war in history.
Collectively, this is an eyewitness to history that will do for the war in Iraq what Michael Herr's Dispatches did for Vietnam.
