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Title: Embedded: The Media At War in Iraq by Bill Katovsky, Timothy Carlson ISBN: 1-59228-265-2 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Why reporters are not soldiers...
Comment: This book contains dozens of 3 or 4 page vignettes from reporters (and some others, like an anti-war activist), who covered the Iraq war. Some of the reporters were embedded and others were independent. The main theme of most of the stories is how bad the conditions were and why the reporters were exhausted and just had to go home after their gruelling five weeks of covering the war. If anything, this book will make you marvel at the courage and fortitude of the military personnel, who endure these conditions, and worse, for months on end.
Some of the stories reflect admiration for the troops and an increased appreciation of the US military and the difficult conditions under which they work and fight. Some reflect a lack of preparedness and understanding by the reporters of what they were getting into; they are apparently suprised that war actually involves killing people, or being killed by them - and the fact that, unfortunately, sometimes innocent civilians die in the process.
This book is most useful in documenting the experience of the reporters during the war, but it sheds relativley little light on the war itself, nor does it coherently address the complex relationship of the reporter and the war environment. Most of the collected stories are "all about me."
Rating: 5
Summary: Under Fire
Comment: How did those two co-authors get these war journalists interviewed for Embedded to open up so candidly? When I first picked up this book, I half-expected to read boilerplate journalism-school debates about ethics, objectivity, pursuing a story. That was not the case here. Not at all. Each interview left me reeling in a cold-sweat panic: So this is what it's like to be a wartime reporter. I was right there in the Bradley Fighting Vehicles with these reporters, or avoiding ambushes in a rented SUV if I was traveling as an independent reporter. Man, what action. Remember that movie about ten or fifteen years ago, "Under Fire," starring Nick Nolte as a combat photographer and Gene Hackman as a seasoned foreign news correspondent? Well, Embedded is as cinematic, as powerful in its own storytelling way--and there's dozens and dozens of these true-life stories. What a read. This IS the book of the war.
Rating: 5
Summary: Studs Terkel would be proud
Comment: A logical idea executed brilliantly: Meld the oral history approach of "Working" to the embedded reporters and their tiny-slices-of-the-pie coverage of the Iraq War. The result is like walking in on a Baghdad reunion party attended by 60-plus of the most interesting, intelligent print and TV war correspondents, including some for the Arab press, all of them spinning yarns about dodging (and sweating) bullets on their wild 21-day spring vacations. Due to the sheer variety of perspectives, each one of them distilled down into fast-reading 3 to 10-page chunks, "Embedded" provides an overall perspective that will be tough for other Iraq war books to match. It ultimately yields a fascinating and fair look at the war. I almost can't wait for the next big act of history to occur; I'll be the first in line to pick up Katovsky and Carlson's next Turkel-like tome.
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Title: Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR's Correspondent Anne Garrels by Anne Garrels ISBN: 0374529035 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 03 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The March Up : Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division by Ray L. Smith, Bing West ISBN: 055380376X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Boots on the Ground: A Month with the 82nd Airborne in the Battle for Iraq by Karl Zinsmeister ISBN: 0312326637 Publisher: Truman Talley Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Operation Iraqi Freedom : The Insider Story by NBC Enterprises ISBN: 0740740598 Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Iraq War: A Military History by Williamson Murray, Robert H., Jr. Scales ISBN: 0674012801 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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