Publication: Race and Class
Publication Date: 01-OCT-04
Format: Online - approximately 1249 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Author: Carlyle, Gabriel
Article Excerpt
Tell Me Lies: propaganda and media distortion in the attack on Iraq
Edited by DAVID MILLER (London, Pluto Press, 2004), 320pp., 12.99 [pounds sterling]/US$19.95.
Weapons of Mass Deception: the uses of propaganda in Bush's war on Iraq
By SHELDON RAMPTON and JOHN STAUBER (London, Constable & Robinson, 2003), 6.99 [pounds sterling].
Iraq: the human cost of history
Edited by TAREQ Y. ISMAEL and WILLIAM H. HADDAD (London, Pluto Press, 2004), 280 pp., 25 [pounds sterling]/US $45.
Regime Unchanged: why the war on Iraq changed nothing
By MILAN RAI (London, Pluto Press 2003), 256pp., 10.99 [pounds sterling]/US $16.95.
The March 2003 invasion of Iraq was swiftly followed by the publication of a flurry of rushed-to-press books, many of them simply rehashes of journalists' contemporary accounts, and of little or no value. However a small--but growing--number of other works of more long-term worth have also trickled out. Among them are the four titles briefly reviewed here.
During the invasion of Iraq the 'embedded' BBC journalist Gavin Hewitt spotted a truck through his binoculars. On a hunch, Hewitt alerted the captain of the military unit he was accompanying, telling him, 'I think these guys are...
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