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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 956.70443
Fabric Type: 9781401307622
Legal Disclaimer: 1401307620
Maximum Color Depth: Hyperion
Metal Type: Hyperion
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 272
Total External Bays Free: February 09, 2005
Total Firewire Ports: Hyperion
Total Parallel Ports: February 09, 2005
Hyperion
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Now in paperback, an insightful book that answers the questions that America wants answered.
Based on his private journals and his public interviews, A Fist in the Hornet's Nest is Richard Engel's harrowing, fascinating, and informative view of Iraq from street level. Through his wartime reportage, Engel has emerged as one of the preeminent journalists of his generation and an invaluable source on Middle Eastern affairs.
For those in search of an in-depth analysis or those trying to make sense of the recent war, Engel's book is as elucidating as it is riveting. His critical assessments for the future of the Gulf region and his analysis of where the American campaign succeeded and where, in some instances, it has failed constitute a book that is sure to be an invaluable contribution to the Middle Eastern debate for years to come.
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
The author, Richard Engel, has invested many of his most productive years in learning the middle east, including the arabic languages. He was the only U.S. reporter in Baghdad when the U.S. troops invaded the city.
While the book is modest, it cuts to the heart of the problems faced by Iraqi's and others in the mid-east. His narrative is the unadorned, unvarnished account of his time in Iraq, where he is still working on assignment.
I bought the book because of seeing ... Read More
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Despite my giving this book a rather lukewarm rating, it does have several things to recommend it. Of these, the strongest is Richard Engel himself. His own story is a pretty impressive one. Fresh out of college, he decided the next frontier of journalism was going to be the Middle East. So he moved to Cairo and taught himself to speak and read Arabic (that right there puts him head-and-shoulders above probably 95 percent of the Americans reporting from the Mideast). With war in Iraq imminent, he ... Read More
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As I plowed through Richard Engel's experiences, a line from the (crappy) movie Armageddon kept ringing in my ears, "...scariest environment imaginable...."
And to think so many brave reporters have literally put their lives on the line to bring us their stories from these tattered war zones. Bottom line, Richard Engel's book is stellar in every way, and I thoroughly enjoyed my read. I found myself wishing the book was longer, thus spreading out my reading as I didn't want it to end. ... Read More
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Engel's book provides an interesting look at what it was like to report on the beginning of the war, however the book shows its age and bias right in the title. Engel seemed to think in 2004 that the war was actually over when we can see today (and I'd think he could have seen at the time) the the war was really just starting. Engel's analysis relies heavily on statements from the US military and discounts Iraqi sources and what he had to be seeing. This book is really heavily pro-war and pro-Israel. ... Read More
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One of the most impressive (though not explicit) topics in the book is Engel's initiative and fortitude in becoming a mid-East reporter - without any initial contract, contacts, or local language ability.
An early observation by the author was the wide-spread and intense hatred of Israel. Arabs noted that Israel repeatedly ignored U.N. resolutions that it disagreed with - and the U.S. did nothing, while using Hussein's violation of U.N. direction as an excuse to invade.
Just ... Read More
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