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Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. His work on the crisis in the Middle East include the National Book Circle Awards- shortlisted The Occupation and Saddam Hussein, The best-selling The Rise of the Islamic State and The Age of Jihad. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009. More recently he has been awarded Foreign Commentator of the Year at the 2013 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year in British Journalism Award 2014, and Foreign Reporter of the Year in Press Awards 2014.
Quite simply, the best Western journalist at work in Iraq today. -- Seymour Hersh Eminently readable...One of the region's most distinguished western observers...Soaked in blood, sectarian strife and fanaticism, mired in Great Power hypocrisy and betrayal, this may not be everyone's idea of feelgood lockdown literature but for anyone interested in the Middle East it is essential reading. -- Justin Marozzi * Sunday Times * Cockburn makes a powerful denunciation of double standards in western media * Irish Times * A fine and courageous journalist, who has displayed a sustained commitment to laying bare the tribulations of the Middle East . This book confirms Cockburn's reputation as a reporter and analyst. -- Max Hastings * Sunday Times [for The Age of Jihad] * An invaluable history of IS along with a powerful critique of Western policy in Iraq and Syria and an unsparing analysis of Shia politics in Baghdad. -- Hugh Roberts * London Review of Books [for The Rise of Islamic State] * This book is required reading for anyone who wants to try to understand the disaster. It should be compulsory reading for politicians, diplomats, defence chiefs and the academic think-tanks whose members make confident predictions, usually confounded by what follows. -- Allan Massie * Scotland on Sunday [for The Age of Jihad] * It is a brilliant tour d'horizon of the new wars, a chronicle compiled from despatches, notes and diaries. No one could be better placed for this task and no one else could have produced such a lucid and comprehensive account. -- Robert Fox * Evening Standard [For The Age of Jihad] * The greatest living foreign correspondent in English, a writer of understated integrity and compassion, with the necessary balance of indignation and detachment -- Richard Lloyd Parry * New York Times [for The Age of Jihad] *
