iraq war, 2003-

Ryan Conklin recounts his experiences serving as a turret gunner with the 101st Airborne Screaming Eagles in Tikrit, Iraq, revealing what day-to-day life is like for soldiers in the Middle East.

Presents a memoir by the father of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Darrell Griffin, with excerpts from his son's blog, e-mails, and other writings in which he discusses life as a soldier, criticizes the Bush administration, and examines various aspects of the War in Iraq before his tragic death by sniper fire.

Dana Canedy shares the story of her relationship with her husband, Charles Monroe King, who was killed in Iraq on October 14, 2006, and includes selections from the two-hundred-page journal he wrote for his infant son after learning he was going to be deployed to Iraq.

Chronicles the events of an April 2004 surprise attack on American troops in Sadr City, Iraq; and provides personal accounts of soldiers in battle and their families and friends waiting for news at home.

Contains a concise and informed study of the conflict in Iraq including interviews with Donald Rumsfeld and General Tommy Franks and examines the reasons for the invasion as well as the strategy of the American and British forces in capturing Baghdad.

Features a collection of articles that reveal the factors that led the United States to declare war on Iraq and chronicle the progression of this conflict. Includes full-color photographs and a glossary.

San Francisco defense attorney Dismas Hardy takes on the apparently simple caseload of a lawyer who has disappeared and becomes embroiled in a murder case involving a National Guard Reservist who served in Iraq, the ex-Navy SEAL and private contractor who slept with the reservist's girlfriend, and, possibly, a conspiracy led by the U.S.

With her mother stationed in Iraq as an Army nurse, Vanderbilt University student Arden Vogel, whose father was killed in a traffic accident a few years earlier, impulsively ends up on a tour of Europe with a group of college girls she meets on her way to attend to some family business in Sardinia.

Ilario Pantano recounts the experiences he had fighting in Iraq in 2004, focusing on his battle to prove his innocence when one of his own men accused him of unjustly killing two Iraqi insurgents.

American journalist Anthony Shadid examines the lives of ordinary Iraqi citizens since the American invasion in 2003. Draws on Iraqi history and travels throughout the Arab world to provide a broad perspective on Iraq and the effects of the invasion and the fall of Saddam. Also examines the lives of individuals such as a poor widow, a Baghdad psychiatrist, and an artist.