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A compelling, masterly portrait of a country revaged by foreign occupation

About the Author

Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. His work on the crisis in the Middle East include the National Book Circle Awards- shortlisted The Occupation and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (with Andrew Cockburn), The best-selling The Rise of the Islamic State and The Age of Jihad. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009. More recently he has been awarded Foreign Commentator of the Year at the 2013 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year in British Journalism Award 2014, and Foreign Reporter of the Year in Press Awards 2014.

Reviews

A wealth of telling detail.
*New York Times*

Cockburn's account of the evolving conflict ... is informed by his keen personal observations and understanding of the complexities and horrors of daily life in Iraq.
*Library Journal*

Of the raft of books about the calamitous mismanagement of the intervention in Iraq, The Occupation is probably the most readable and certainly the only one that-even if only in the driest possible way-manages to be amusing.
*Christopher Hitchens*

A masterpiece of journalism.
*Evening Standard*

From the front line itself, the brilliant and brave Patrick Cockburn has produced one of the best books of the year.
*The Herald*

Brilliantly told ... No Western reporter knows the country better.
*The Plain Dealer*

A necessary book.
*Guardian*

One of the most accurate and intrepid journalists in Iraq.
*Salon*

A wealth of telling detail. * New York Times *
Cockburn's account of the evolving conflict ... is informed by his keen personal observations and understanding of the complexities and horrors of daily life in Iraq. * Library Journal *
Of the raft of books about the calamitous mismanagement of the intervention in Iraq, The Occupation is probably the most readable and certainly the only one that-even if only in the driest possible way-manages to be amusing. -- Christopher Hitchens
A masterpiece of journalism. -- A. N. Wilson * Evening Standard *
From the front line itself, the brilliant and brave Patrick Cockburn has produced one of the best books of the year. -- James Naughtie * The Herald *
Brilliantly told ... No Western reporter knows the country better. -- John Freeman * The Plain Dealer *
A necessary book. * Guardian *
One of the most accurate and intrepid journalists in Iraq. -- Sidney Blumenthal * Salon *