title: War Journal: My Five Years in Iraq
author:  Richard Engel 
description: Richard Engel is the award winning Chief-Foreign Correspondent for NBC and has been in the Middle East war zone for over twenty years. He is the author of <i>And Then All Hell Broke Loose</i>, <i>War Journal</i>, and <i>A Fist in the Hornets Nest</i>.
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  First published in English in 1992
  
  
  New revised edition first published 2011 by
  
  
  edition.engdahl
  
  
  Bunsenstrasse 6g
  
  
  65293 Wiesbaden, Germany
  
  
  [www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net](http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net)
  
  
  Copyright © F. William Engdahl 1992, 2004, 2011
  
  
  The right of F. William Engdahl to be identified as the author of this work
  has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United
  States of America and the UK Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.
  
  
  ISBN 978-3-9813263-2-1  
  eBook ISBN: 978-3-9813263-4-5
  
  
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  Front cover picture: The British occupation of Baghdad on March 11, 1917 under
  the command of Lieutenant General Stanley Maude. Source: Bildarchiv
  Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Author’s Introduction to the 2011 English
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