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very pleased with Nov 21, 2006
rory mulholland's fascinating report about his iraq experiance! an impressively authentic depiction, consistently packing to read - i was absorbed and therefore highly recommend it to anyone interested in current or recent global affairs and keen on glancing behind the curtains.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Iraq the twilight zone Mar 02, 2006
Rory Mulholland's "Camp Britney, Tikrit: The Genteel Art of
War Reporting" gives us a tour of life with the US
Army in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit. In nimble
prose, Mulholland shows us the comedy of base life,
from the weird reporter cult centered around Britney
Spears to Christmas time with the GIs. Along the way,
we get glimpses of guitar-strumming born again
Christian officers, tribal sheikhs and drunken
civilian contractors. In short, absurd, cruel, funny
and heartbreaking this book is a glimpse of Iraq's
confounding, impossible to pigeonhole realities.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
an unfiltered diary of post-war Iraq Jan 27, 2006
The Amazon blurb for this book is thankfully quite unjust: Mulholland is obviously more than just a reporter stranded and looking for a story. He is an acute observer and a shrewd researcher and interviewer. The diary starts off at a slow pace, which worried me at first. Mulholland describes how being embedded with the US army at the start of "post-war" Iraq apparently was more quirky than wildly exciting.
But there is more than enough action to keep your interest, ranging from journalists surviving an illegal alcohol shopping trip when their armoured vehicle is attacked with an improvised roadside bomb to descriptions of the digitally controlled activities in the Sunni triangle of the 4th Infantry Division (yes, the same division that was the first off the landing craft in France on D-Day).
For once a book about Iraq that does not try to explain things. Instead, it reports individual events happening to real, every-day people, events that speak for themselves. Read it and make up your own mind about it all.
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