Black Knights : The Bloody Road to Baghdad (2nd ed)

This is the riveting tale of a young British journalist embedded in a US tank corps known as the Black Knights as they spearheaded the push into Baghdad in spring 2003, in the first major war of the twenty-first century.

How did the troops - many of them under the age of twenty, some of whom had only recently acquired US citizenship - cope with fear and injury?

How did they react to the killing? How were they changed by war? What, finally, was the impact on the people of Baghdad?

Oliver Poole shared the soldiers' food, living space and dangers.

Here he has written a remarkably frank and revealing narrative - testimony as much to his own courage and writing skills as to the bravery and professionalism of the combatants.

Part of the proceeds from the sale of "Black Knights" will go to International PEN, a charity that protects and promotes freedom of speech around the world.