The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq

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

The New York Times - Barry Gewen

Patrick Cockburn, now a correspondent for The Independent of London…knows the Middle East well. He has reported from Tehran and Lebanon, lived in Israel, and been visiting Iraq since 1978. His eye for the telling detail lifts The Occupation above the usual journalist's account of the Iraq war.

Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent of Independent, has been visiting Iraq since 1978. He was awarded the 2005 Martha Gellhorn prize for war reporting. He is the author of The Broken Boy, a memoir, and, with Andrew Cockburn, Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein.