IRAQ:
EYEWITNESS TO WAR

A PHOTOJOURNALIST'S DIARY

A book by Robert J. Galbraith

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    "In Iraq: Eyewitness to War, Robert Galbraith puts a human face on an inhuman situation... His day-by-day diary, illustrated with about 600 photos taken during travels in Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan, is a compelling effort, as difficult to read at some points as it is to put down..."

    "Indeed, some of his reports are ominously prescient..."

    "Amid all the politics and pro and con arguments about the war, Galbraith amply illustrates the human toll in words often as vivid as his pictures..."

By Nelson Wyatt. Read the full article from the The Canadian Press, Oct. 13, 2004: Iraq: Eyewitness to War--A Photojournalist's Diary

    "Through his lens, Galbraith shows us what he saw in that month after Saddam Hussein's Baath Party was broken by overwhelming force. He takes us to places no Western camera has gone and shows us enough grief to last a lifetime..."

    "For someone aching to get into war-zone photojournalism, this is the crash course..."

    "This is a side of the Iraq war you didn't see. To read it is to understand how our media works..."

By Jim Duff. Read the full article from the The Suburban, Sept. 21, 2004: OPINION -- GALBRAITH'S WAR. Iraq: Eyewitness to War -- A photojournalist's diary. By Robert J. Galbraith

    "For the past 15 months he has worked like a man possessed on the book he risked his life to write... One of the surprising things about Iraq: Eyewitness To War is that it chronicles peace as well as war. One highlight is a series of photos of Shiite Muslims on their first pilgrimage to Karbala. While there are dramatic photos of soldiers rounding up looters and heartwrenching ones of shrapnel-wounded children, there's also a close up a scarlet hibiscus with the caption: "The Iraqi people love flowers," and another of a stray dog bathing in a rain-filled ditch. This reflects more of Galbraith's method..."

By Pat Donnelly, Montreal Gazette Books Critic, in the Sept. 26, 2004 Gazette. Read the full article, Images of a war, courtesy of MontrealGazette.com.

"His book reads like a mad taxi-drive through the war-torn country..."

"A gritty, compelling, ground-level slice of that campaign..."

"A testament to the courage of journalists and their willingness to risk it all to tell the stories of a war's ground zero..."

"It is his photographs that tell the story of a society already unwound, recoiling at times into anarchy..."

By Caroline Kehne, Editor of the Lake Champlain Weekly, Oct. 6, 2004: A Photojournalist's Diary Recounts His Voyage Through Chaos.

"He refused to be an embedded reporter with the American forces and he did not want to sit through orchestrated press conferences at the press centre. He wanted total freedom to cover the war. At great personal peril, he managed to cover the war in a way that you will not see in the mainstream press..."

"His is a personal journey, one very different from those embedded with the armed forces. Galbraith goes to every extreme to get both sides of the story. Galbraith does an impressive job with his book on Iraq. He pulls no punches and tells it the way he sees it. If you have a curiosity about the war in Iraq, this is a must read book. With so many of our people (aboriginal people) in the U.S. armed forces, this would give everyone a broader view of the war and maybe answer some of the questions you have about the war. The book is well worth the price."

By Kenneth Deer, managing-editor and publisher of the weekly Mohawh Territory newspaper, The Eastern Door, Dec. 17, 2004: Robert Galbraith covers both Iraq wars in new book.

"Completed in fall of last year, Iraq: An Eyewitness to War is a personalized and illustrated diary that outlines the human toll of war during the anarchical period that precluded the rise of the insurgency. Written in a colloquial style, and illustrated with 600 full-colour pictures, it takes the reader on a harrowing round-trip of a devastated country, of its people and its occupiers."

"In a clairvoyant manner, the author exposes the failures of the occupying forces in controlling looting, providing food, water and electricity to the population and reigning in the black market weapons trade‹all of which would later lead to a generalized climate of violence. Central to his book, however, are what he calls, 'the common folk,' who are often forgotten in the mainstream media coverage."

By Alex Dobrota, thelink.concordia.ca, February 01, 2005: Montreal-based photojournalist documents the plights of war..

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