导语

  

    It's said that the first casualty in a war is truth, as both sides jostle to defend their positions. In the Iraq war, the BBC deployed an unrivalled team of correspondents to cover the complex issues involved and to seek out the truth. For this book, top correspondents, including John Simpson, Rageh Omaar and Fergal Keane, have written a series of incisive and accessible essays which guide the reader through each stage of the Iraq crisis. The book also contains first-hand accounts from the front lines. Some BBC correspondents, such as Ben Brown and Gavin Hewitt, were "embedded" with US and British troops; they provide unique snapshots of combat and the hazards of reporting through the "fog of war". Title guides the reader through each stage of the crisis, from the evolution of American policy after 9/11, through the diplomatic and political confrontation in the run-up to war, to the campaign itself and the prospects for Iraq's post-war reconstruction.

内容提要

  

Maps
Chronology
Foreword
Front-line Stories
Clive Myrie, Adam Mynott, Andrew North,
Ben Brown, Gavin Hewitt, David Willis
ONE The Road to War
Fergal Keane
TWO Showdown at the UN
Bridget Kendall
THREE Top Gun - Bush Rises to the Challenge
Matt Frei
FOUR Blair's Gamble
Martha Kearney
FIVE The Disunited States of Europe
Stephen Sackur
SIX 'Shock and Awe' - an Inevitable Victory
Paul Adams
SEVEN A Baghdad Diary
Rageh Omaar
EIGHT Saddam - a Dictator of Mass Destruction
John Simpson
NINE Confusion and Betrayal - an Arab Mosaic
Caroline Hawley
TEN The Northern Front and the Kurds" Endgame
Jim Muir
ELEVEN "All About Oil?" The Economics of War
Evan Davis
TWELVE Vox Populi - Worldwide War-talk on the Web
Paul Reynolds
THIRTEEN Promise and Fear - Iraq's Future in the
Balance
Allan Little
Index