Research Catalog

Title

America at war : the battle for Iraq : a view from the front lines / CBS News--Dan Rather and the reporters of CBS News.

Publication

New York : Simon & Schuster, c2003.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• CBS News
• Rather, Dan.

Description

xiv, 162 p. : col. ill., col. map; 24 cm. +

Summary

DVD material "compiled from original footage and news reports in the CBS News Archives, an informative companion and a comprehensive reference to the battles fought in Iraq"--Back jacket.

Subject

• Electronic news gathering > United States
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Pictorial works
• Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Television and the war
• Television broadcasting of news > United States

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction /Dan Rather -- Chronology of a War -- Map of the Region -- Map of Iraq -- TIME RUNS OUT -- The March to War /Charles Wolfson -- "The Day of Your Liberation Is Near" /Excerpt of a speech by President George W. Bush -- To the Fliers, Shock and Awe Was Just Another Mission /Cynthia Bowers -- COMBAT -- Moving Out /Jim Axelrod -- Soldiers of the Night /Lee Cowan -- The Enemy Within /Mark Strassmann -- Friend or Foe /Scott Pelley -- Incoming Wounded /Phil Ittner -- Ambushed /John Roberts -- "We Have Always Lived in Fear" /Allen Pizzey -- Trying to Help /Erin Moriarty -- More Questions Than Answers /Mike Kirsch -- ALL BUT WON -- Closing In /Jim Axelrod -- Dead Wrong /Allen Pizzey -- Sacrifice /Mika Brzezinski -- Witness to the Fall /Lara Logan -- Grace Under Fire /Byron Pitts -- Taking it Day by Day /Jim Axelrod -- Lawlessness and Disorder /Dan Rather -- Caught in the Cross Fire /Lara Logan -- The Accidental Mayor / Scott Pelley -- Afterword /Mark Phillips.
• DVD content -- Opening shots -- Challenges -- Closing in -- Fall of Baghdad -- Personal stories -- After the fall -- "We have prevailed."

ISBN

0743257863

LCCN

^^2003059045

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library