Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is an Irish journalist. He has been a Middle East correspondent since 1979, for The Financial Times and, currently, for The Independent. Among the most experienced commentators on Iraq, he has written various books on the country’s recent history. He has won the Martha Gellhorn Prize, the James Cameron Prize and the Orwell Prize for Journalism
Books by Patrick Cockburn
Saddam Hussein
by Andrew Cockburn & Patrick Cockburn
A biography of the events of the 1990s. It describes a lot about what went on in Saddam’s regime and very artfully weaves in some reportage that the authors have done themselves. There are also some very good accounts of what Iraq was like during the UN sanctions, when life for Iraqis became very difficult. But what you have to remember with this book and all those written in Saddam’s time is that reliable and accurate information is very hard to come by. To try to make sense of it is very admirable.
Interviews with Patrick Cockburn
The best books on The Iraq War, recommended by Patrick Cockburn
The veteran Middle East correspondent gives us his tips for the best reading about the US-led invasion and occupation, and explains why the West shouldn’t have intervened in Iraq in the first place
Interviews where books by Patrick Cockburn were recommended
The best books on Iraq, recommended by Colin Freeman
The Sunday Telegraph’s chief foreign correspondent on the dangers of being a journalist in the Iraq war. “When a little of group of kids wandered up and said, ‘Hello mister, how are you?’, it was time to leave”
