Standard Operating Procedure

Philip Gourevitch has written a relentlessly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror. Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol Morris's startlingly frank and intimate interviews with the soldier-photographers who gave the world what have become the iconic images of the Iraq war, Standard operating Procedure is a book that makes one see, feel and think about what it means to be human. An utterly original book. One that lies far beyond the headlines - the story of how those soldiers were at once the insdtruments of a great injustice and the victims of a greater injustice. 286p.