Foreword by Christopher Booker; Introduction; 1. Losing the Peace; 2. A Very Secret War; 3. Hit and Run; 4. The Seeds of Betrayal; 5. Descent into Chaos; 6. The Campaign; 7. Running Away; 8. Tipping Points; 9. The Road to Defeat; 10. The Return to al Amarah; 11. Armchair Generals; Epilogue - Could it have been different?
Christopher Booker was one of the founders of Private Eye and its first editor. He has a weekly column in the Sunday Telegraph and a regular column in The Daily Mail. He has published several books including The Neophiliacs (Harper Collins), The Great Deception, Seven Basic Plots and Scared to Death (all published by Continuum). Richard North is a political analyst who has been a research director in the European Parliament and was formerly a nationally known consultant on public health and food safety. He has co-authored several books with Christopher Booker.
"a devastating account of our occupation of southern Iraq. North
shows that the MoD's one real triumph was the extent to which it
managed to conceal how our six-year occupation, thanks largely to
Tony Blair, became one of the most humiliating chapters in the
history of the British Army." - Sunday Telegraph--Sanford
Lakoff
'Book of the year ... An admirable investigation of Britain's most
rotten ministry, it helps explain the questionable performance of
British troops and especially their equipment in Iraq, with tales
of incompetence worthy of the trenches.' - Simon Jenkins, Times
Literary Supplement
'Devastating' - Simon Jenkins, The Guardian
'This forceful and searching analysis of the British military's
failings in Iraq provides greater plausibility than anything else
put forward to date ... If the important inquest into Britain's
questionable performance in Iraq is going to have any impact then
those in positions of power should take heed of North's urging that
to recognise failure "is not to apportion blame, but to prevent it
from being repeated."' - Thomas Harding, Daily Telegraph
'Timely and thought-provoking' - Philip Jacobson, Daily Mail
"[Ministry of Defeat] is not a descriptive, eyewitness chronicle of
events, but an analysis of policy, military tactics and strategy,
and their effect on combat troops ... The publication of this book
anticipates the withdrawal being presented by politicians and the
MoD as the natural consequence of a job well done." - Telegraph &
Argus (Bradford). 30 May 2009.
Author presentation of the book in Yorkshire Post (North/York),
(East/Hull), (West/Leeds), (South/Sheffield)3 July 2009
Mention on Russia Today, July 2009 http:
//www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-07-31/british-soldiers-iraq.html
Mention, telegragph.co.uk. 30 May 2009.
Title mention in Tribune, August 2009
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