Baghdad Bulletin: The Real Story of the War in Iraq - Reporting From Beyond the Green Zone

Baghdad Bulletin: The Real Story of the War in Iraq - Reporting From Beyond the Green Zone

David Enders
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Author:  David Enders
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  200
Publisher:  Pluto Press
Year:  2005
ISBN:  9780745324654

"The Baghdad Bulletin was essential reading in the first few months after the end of the war. ... I am only sorry that I cannot read it anymore. David Enders and his team were brave, enterprising and idealistic." Rt. Hon. Ann Clwyd, MP

"David Enders has a stunning independent streak and the courage to trust his own perceptions as he reports from outside the bubble Americans have created for themselves in Iraq." Joe Sacco, author of 'Safe Area Gorazde' and 'Palestine'

"Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts do not go. Disrupting the easy cliches that dominate US journalism, Enders blows away the media fog of war." Norman Soloman, author of 'War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death'

"Journalism at its finest and on a shoestring to boot." Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch

"Young and tenacious, Dave Enders went, saw and wrote it down. Here it is -- a well-informed and detailed tale of Iraq's decline under American rule." Christian Parenti, Nation correspondent

Baghdad Bulletin is a street-level account of the invasion and occupation of Iraq as seen through the eyes of the young independent journalist David Enders. Enders recounts his decision to go to Iraq, where he opened the only English-language newspaper completely written, printed and distributed there during the invasion.

Young, courageous and anti-authoritarian, Enders is the first reporter to cover the war as experienced by ordinary Iraqis. Deprived of the press credentials that gave his embedded colleagues access to press conferences and officially-sanitised information, he tells the story of a different war, outside the Green Zone. It is a story in which the struggle of everyday life is interspersed with moments of sheer terror and absurdity: wired American troops train their guns on terrified civilians; travelling clowns wreak havoc in a Baghdad police station.

Orphans and intellectuals, activists and insurgents, Baghdad Bulletin depicts the unseen complexity of Iraqi society and gives us a powerful glimpse of a new kind of warfare, one that co-exists with -- and sometimes tragically veers into -- the everyday rhythms of life.
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