Photographer Ashley Gilbertson arrived in Iraq on the eve of the US invasion in March 2003. In his new book, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, he records the raw reality of a country reduced to chaos by war. Also, American writer Dahr Jamail delivers an eyewitness account of the battle for Fallujah, and Brian Cathcart reports on the war the British media has forgotten

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All pictures from Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: a Photographer’s Chronicle of the Iraq War by Ashley Gilbertson, published by the University of Chicago Press (2007)
Captions by Ashley Gilbertson

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