In an action-packed narrative Oliver Poole describes how he became "embedded" in a US tank and infantry company known as the Black Knights - the first unit in the Third Infantry Division to engage in combat. By the time the first statues of Saddam were toppled in Baghdad, the soldiers had been through a terrifying baptism of fire - and had inflicted terrible casualties on the Iraqis. How did they - many of them under the age of 20, some of whom had only recently acquired US citizenship - cope with fear and injury? How did they react to the killing? How were they changed by war? What was the impact on the people of Baghdad? Oliver Poole has written a fly-on-the-wall account of what frontline combat action meant in the first major war of the 21st century.

Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad

History

Poole, Oliver

Military

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

In an action-packed narrative Oliver Poole describes how he became "embedded" in a US tank and infantry company known as the Black Knights - the first unit in the Third Infantry Division to engage in combat.  By the time the first statues of Saddam were toppled in Baghdad, the soldiers had been through a terrifying baptism of fire - and had inflicted terrible casualties on the Iraqis. How did they - many of them under the age of 20, some of whom had only recently acquired US citizenship - cope with fear and injury?  How did they react to the killing?  How were they changed by war?  What was the impact on the people of Baghdad?  Oliver Poole has written a fly-on-the-wall account of what frontline combat action meant in the first major war of the 21st century.

Asia

HarperCollins, UK

This is the ?Band of Brothers? story of the American soldiers ordered to topple Saddam Hussein ? told by the British reporter sent to share their lives, hopes and fears. The American tank company known as the ?Black Knights? were among the first units of the US 3rd Infantry Division to see combat when, twelve hours after entering Iraq, they helped seize a major airfield. Eight hundred miles and almost a month later, they led the American army as it advanced into the outskirts of Baghdad, through positions held by thousands of Republican Guards. By the time the first statues of Saddam were toppled, the soldiers had been through a terrifying baptism of fire - and had inflicted terrible casualties on the Iraqis. The things they did and saw on that deadly trek into the heart of the Iraqi state would change them all for ever.

Black Knights: ON THE BLOODY ROAD TO BAGHDAD

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

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Red Zone: FIVE BLOODY YEARS IN BAGHDAD

Professionals & Academics

Winner of the Montaigne Medal for 2009 “There's little good news, but [Oliver] Poole offers an insightful, sympathetic foreigner’s perspective on America's misadventures in Iraq.”—Kirkus Reviews As the Iraq correspondent for the British newspaper the Daily Telegraph, Oliver Poole arrived in Baghdad in 2005. For the next two years his home was a hotel room in the middle of Baghdad’s “Red Zone,” one of the most dangerous places on earth. Poole describes his daily life and how a lively city full of cafés was plunged into an unreported civil war. His own office was destroyed by a suicide bomber. He tells how the war changed his life and that of his interpreter, Ahmed, and his family: pregnant sister-in-law blown up as she is teaching a class of children, brother-in-law kidnapped and murdered, and another brother kidnapped, the family forced to flee. As he travels across Iraq with British and US forces, Oliver Poole witnesses firsthand the impact that war has on the troops. Finally, in November 2006, with the Telegraph closing down his office, Oliver Poole joined the masses escaping Iraq through the Baghdad airport. Fully up-to-date (up to the end of 2007), Red Zone is the most intimate and moving account of the war in Iraq to be published. Oliver Poole first entered Iraq in March 2003 after crossing the Kuwaiti border as the only British daily newspaper reporter “embedded” with the US Army. His account of the invasion, Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad (HarperCollins), sold over thirty thousand copies.

Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad

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"The best reporter's book of the war so far—and it deserves to be one of THE books of the whole Iraqi crisis."—Robert Fox, Evening Standard "This is an exhilarating, honest, often scary account of modern war as close-up spectator."—The Sunday Times "Poole is a great reporter . . . possessed of a cool eye, natural sympathy and curiosity, and brisk honesty. He has immortalised [the Black Knights] in a true, funny and poignant book."—Patrick Bishop, The Daily Telegraph "[Poole's] account of the baptism of fire endured by a US tank company is starkly horrific in places. It is also witty, often laugh-out-loud funny, and spiced with some wonderfully colourful pen portraits"—Soldier Oliver Poole was one of the first journalists embedded with the US tank corps known as the Black Knights as they spearheaded the push into Baghdad in spring 2003. How did the troops—many of them under the age of twenty, some of whom had only recently acquired US citizenship—cope with fear and injury? How did they react to the killing? How were they changed by war? What, finally, was the impact on the people of Baghdad? Poole has written a frank and revealing narrative of life in the US Army. Part of the proceeds from Black Knights will go to International PEN, who helped Poole's translator and his family flee Iraq for America. Oliver Poole was The Daily Telegraph's Iraq correspondent from 2003–2006. He is the author of Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad.

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Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad

Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad

Black Knights: ON THE BLOODY ROAD TO BAGHDAD

Red Zone: FIVE BLOODY YEARS IN BAGHDAD

Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in Baghdad

Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad