![]() ![]() ![]() In this space I'll discuss four recent books that have come out of the current American war in Iraq. We're now far enough into the latest war that books written by combatants have begun to appear. Later, politicians and diplomats will hire ghostwriters to burnish their images with eight-hundred-page tomes, any ten pages of which might be used for insomnia. Immediately after any conflict, conflagration, or flood, journalists produce the first books that the public devours. NIGHT DRAWS NEAR: IRAQ'S PEOPLE IN THE SHADOW OF AMERICA'S WAR by Anthony Shadid Henry Holt and Company. MY WAR: KILLING TIME IN IRAQ by Colby Buzzell G.P Putnam's Sons. OVER THERE: FROM THE BRONX TO BAGHDAD A MEMOIR by Alan Feuer Counterpoint. ![]() WAR REPORTING FOR COWARDS by Chris Ayres Atlantic Monthly Press. ![]()
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