PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Jack Fairweather is an expert on the American and British military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, recent defence policy in both countries, and the issues surrounding humanitarian intervention in the Middle East. He is currently a fellow of the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University and was the Daily Telegraph's Baghdad and Gulf correspondent for five years. As an embedded reporter during the Iraq invasion, he and his team won the Best Team Reporting award at the British Press Awards. Most recently he has been the Washington Post's Islamic world correspondent and a senior editor at the Solutions Journal. He received his BA and MA in English Literature from Lincoln College, Oxford.
Sound, vivid and enhanced by his modesty - there is no as the bullets flew around my head here. He simply describes in cool prose how Britain's share in the western allies' initial 2003 success in deposing Saddam Hussein and occupying Iraq tuned into a nightmare struggle against insurgency -- Max Hastings Sunday Times It makes for one of the best histories of the aftermath of war, and a staggering story of the betrayal of everything it was fought for Good Book Guide A rollercoaster narrative of heroism, mismanagement and disaster... as gripping as any novel -- Robert Irwin It does what the Chilcot Inquiry should do, but probably won't -- Robert Fox Evening Standard, Books of the Year A compelling history of the seamy realities of war in both Iraq and Afghanistan, it combines the vivideness of front-line reporting with detached and incisive analysis. A War of Choice should become the definitive account of this era -- Alistair Horne
