In the most dramatic and intimate account of battle reporting since
Michael Herr's classic "Dispatches," NBC News's award-winning
Middle East Bureau Chief, Richard Engel, offers an unvarnished and
often emotional account of five years in Iraq.
Engel is the longest serving broadcaster in Iraq and the only
American television reporter to cover the country continuously
before, during, and after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Fluent in Arabic,
he has had unrivaled access to U.S. military commanders, Sunni
insurgents, Shiite militias, Iraqi families, and even President
George W. Bush, who called him to the White House for a private
briefing. He has witnessed nearly every major milestone in this
long war.
"War Journal" describes what it was like to go into the hole
where U.S. Special Operations Forces captured Saddam Hussein. Engel
was there as the insurgency began and watched the spread of Iranian
influence over Shiite religious cities and the Iraqi government. He
watched as Iraqis voted in their first election. He was in the
courtroom when Saddam was sentenced to death and interviewed
General David Petraeus about the surge.
In vivid, sometimes painful detail, Engel tracks the successes
and setbacks of the war. He describes searching, with U.S troops,
for a missing soldier in the dangerous Sunni city of Ramadi;
surviving kidnapping attempts, IED attacks, hotel bombings, and
ambushes; and even the smell of cakes in a bakery attacked by
sectarian gangs and strewn with bodies of the executed.
"War Journal" describes a sectarian war that American leaders
were late to understand and struggled to contain. It is an account
of the author's experiences, insights, bittersweet reflections, and
moments from his private video diary -- itself the subject of a
highly acclaimed documentary on MSNBC.
"War Journal" is the story of the transformation of a young
journalist who moved to the Middle East with $2,000 and a belief
that the region would be ""the" story" of his generation into a
seasoned reporter who has at times believed that he would die
covering the war. It is about American soldiers, ordinary Iraqis,
and especially a few brave individuals on his team who continually
risked their lives to make his own daring reporting possible.
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