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Also by Philip Gourevitch:

The Ballad of Abu Ghraib, May 2009
Paperback
Standard Operating Procedure, May 2008
Hardcover
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, September 1999
Paperback

THE BALLAD OF ABU GHRAIB
By: Philip Gourevitch

Penguin
May 2009
On Sale: April 28, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 0143115391
EAN: 9780143115397
Paperback
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Non-Fiction

The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison—“one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq” (The New York Times Book Review)

A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is a war story that takes its place among the classics. Acclaimed author Philip Gourevitch presents the story behind a defining moment in the war, and a defining moment in our understanding of ourselves— the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs of prisoner abuse. Drawing on Academy Award–winning filmmaker Errol Morris’s astonishing interviews with the Americans who took and appeared in the pictures, Standard Operating Procedure is an utterly original book that stands to endure as essential reading long after the current war in Iraq passes from the headlines.

Media Buzz

On The Media - June 27, 2009
This American Life - June 27, 2009
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer - May 4, 2009