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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War (Hardcover)
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War (Hardcover)
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Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unaffiliated with
any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way,
Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover
the disintegration of America's military triumph as looting and
score-settling convulsed Iraqi cities. Just twenty-five years old
at the time, Gilbertson soon landed a contract with the "New York
Times", and his extraordinary images of life in occupied Iraq and
of American troops in action began appearing in the paper
regularly. Throughout his work, Gilbertson took great risks to
document the risks taken by others, whether dodging sniper fire
with American infantry, photographing an Iraqi bomb squad as they
defused IEDs, or following marines into the cauldron of urban
combat. "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" gathers the best of Gilbertson's
photographs, chronicling America's early battles in Iraq, the
initial occupation of Baghdad, the insurgency that erupted shortly
afterward, the dramatic battle to overtake Falluja, and the
country's first national elections. No Western photojournalist has
done as much sustianed work in occupied Iraq as Gilbertson, and
this wide-ranging treatment of the war from the viewpoint of a
photographer is the first of its kind. Accompanying each section of
the book is a personal account of Gilbertson's experiences covering
the conflict. Throughout, he conveys the exhilaration and terror of
photographing war, as well as the challenges of photojournalism in
our age of embedded reporting. But ultimately, and just as
importantly, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" tells the story of
Gilbertson's own journey from hard-drinking bravado to the grave
realism of a scarred survivor. Here he struggles with guilt over
the death of a marine escort, tells candidly of his own experience
with post-traumatic stress disorder, and grapples with the reality
that Iraq - despite the sacrifice in Iraqi and American lives - has
descended into a civil war with no end in sight. A searing account
of the American experience in Iraq, "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" is sure
to become one of the classic war photography books of our time.
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