Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
Ex-library volume. In very good condition, a few markings and stickers from library use. Published 2007.Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America’s military triumph as looting and score settling convulsed Iraqi cities. Just twenty-five years old at the time, Gilbertson soon landed a contract with the New York Times, and his extraordinary images of life in occupied Iraq and of American troops in action began appearing in the paper regularly. Throughout his work, Gilbertson took superb risks to document the risks taken by others, whether dodging sniper fire with American infantry, photographing an Iraqi bomb squad as they diffused IEDs, or following marines into the cauldron of urban combat.Whiskey Tango Foxtrot gathers the foremost of Gilbertson’s photographs, chronicling America’s early battles in Iraq.