A gripping tale of the adventures of a group of reporters who set themselves up in a house in Baghdad immediately post-occupation, and then lived through and reported on everything falling apart around them over the next year.

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A Chechen terrorist group struck the Russian town of Beslan. Targeting children, they took more than eleven hundred hostages. The attack represented a horrifying innovation in human brutality. (Enthralling, but so horrific it's hard to read.)

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Do you remember this photograph? In the US, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.

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