What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It

In this modern-day successor to the Vietnam classic Everything We Had, award-winning investigative reporter Trish Wood offers a gritty, authentic, and uncensored history of the war in Iraq, as told by the American soldiers who are fighting it.

Author: Trish Wood
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 11/02/2007
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.24h x 5.64w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9780316016711

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/25/2007 pg. 32

About the Author
Trish Wood is an award-winning investigative reporter who has been working with veterans of the Iraq war for more than two years. She has been honored by the Canadian Association of Journalists, the Canadian Science Writers' Association, the Radio-Television News Directors Association, the National Magazine Awards, and the New York Film Festival.

Bobby Muller was a marine infantry officer in the Vietnam War until a bullet severed his spinal cord and left him paralyzed from the chest down. The founder of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, he is an outspoken advocate for veterans' rights and spearheads efforts to assist civilian victims of war. Recently he cofounded Veterans for America, a new program dedicated to meeting the needs of a new generation of veterans.