War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq

Engle and his NBC crew frequently traveled in harm's way to report on life as it actually is for U.S. and coalition forces, everyday Iraqi citizens, and the many warring factions embroiled in the insurgency. From his day-to-day reporting, Engel also describes the misguided policies and perspectives of early Green Zone officials and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who thought that the political situation in Samara was a good news story the news media had failed to cover. With the hardened nerves of a veteran war correspondent, he highlights with casual demeanor the dangers of combat, weaving in accounts of exploding Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), daily kidnappings, boobytrapped corpses, and other horrors.