When war broke out in Iraq, every major U S network pulled its correspondents from the scene Despite the risk, Richard Engel stayed As our tanks entered Baghdad in April 2003, he was there, bringing the Iraqi war into American homes as a stringer for ABC news Determined to deliver the whole Middle East story, Engel moved to Cairo in 1996 after graduating from Stanford to learn street Arabic Then to dig even deeper into the complicated powderkeg of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, he settled in Jerusalem Now as Iraq enters its postwar phase and the Gulf region continues to dominate our nations consciousness, more and more Americans will come to know and trust Richard Engelespecially in his current role as a correspondent for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw Both analytical and anecdotal, this book leads us through the war in Iraq, dissecting a myriad of Middle East issues, all from the vantage point of someone who is on the ground and in the streets to get the real story