Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad - Couverture souple

Poole, Oliver

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0955830257 ISBN 13 : 9780955830259

Editeur : Reportage Press, 2008

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

This eyewitness account by former Telegraph correspondent reveals the truth about Baghdad's Red Zone and is the most personal account of the war to be published. How do you cheer on your national football team, when you're terrified to step outside your front door? What's it like to go to the shops, when your biggest fear is being blown up by a suicide bomber? Or risk being shot at a roadblock when you drive your pregnant wife to hospital? As the Daily Telegraph's Iraq correspondent, Oliver Poole arrived in Baghdad in 2005. For the next two years his home would be a hotel room in the middle of Baghdad's Red Zone , one of the most dangerous places on earth. Oliver describes daily life in a largely unreported civil war. He tells how the war changed the life of Oliver, the young Englishman, his interpreter Ahmed and his family (pregnant sister-in-law blown up as she is teaching a class of children, brother-in-law kidnapped and murdered, another brother kidnapped, family forced to flee). As he travelled across Iraq with British and US troops Oliver Poole witnessed first hand the bloody impact of car bombs and had his own offices destroyed by a suicide bomber. Finally in November 2006, with the Telegraph closing down his office, Oliver Poole joined the masses escaping Iraq through Baghdad airport. Percentage of proceeds to go to the charity International Pen, who helped Poole's translator flee from the terrorists trying to kill him for working for a foreigner.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Oliver Poole joined the Telegraph in 1999. He first entered Iraq in March 2003 after crossing the Kuwaiti border as the only British daily newspaper reporter embedded with the US Army. His account of the invasion, Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad was a bestseller.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Reportage Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0955830257
• ISBN 13: 9780955830259
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200