In Love and War (24 page)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

No writer is an island, which is why I’d like to send an extra word of gratitude to my husband for reading all of my work—over and over again. Your input, suggestions,
and
criticisms have helped shape me as a writer. Mark Morris and Nola Cross—thank you both for agreeing to proof this. Your help and encouragement mean the world to me. Thank you to my family and friends who share my work and related announcements in whatever way works best for them.

And last, I’d lik
e to send out a warm hug to the ladies of TKS, now, sadly one treasured member short. Without so many of you blazing this trail ahead of me, I wouldn’t be here now. Sorry for pestering you with all of my related questions, but you helped make this happen. Thank you.

Bibliography

Books
:

The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
by Patrick Cockburn, London, Verso, 2006

Reporting Iraq:
An oral history of the war by the journalists who covered it
, Edited by Mike Hoyt, John Palattella, and the staff of the Columbia Journalism Review, New Jersey, Melville House Publishing, 2007

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an
unembedded journalist in occupied Iraq
by Dahr Jamail, Chicago, Haymarket Books, 2007

Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
by Peter Maass, New York, Vintage Books, 1997

The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth
by Jeremy Rifkin, New York, Putnam, 2002

Articles/Magazines/other sources
:

Kill the Messengers
,
National Public Radio, This American Life, March 2007,
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/327/by-proxy?act=2
,
What’s In A Number
?—2006 Edition
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/320/whats-in-a-number-%E2%80%94-2006-edition

The ugly truth about everyday life in Baghdad—A Confidential Memo from the US Ambassador
Zalmay Khalilzad, Baghdad to Condoleeza Rice, Secretary of State
, dated June 20, 2006,
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/the-ugly-truth-about-everyday-life-in-baghdad-by-the-us-ambassador-404742.html

Theocracy
Lite
by Katha Pollitt, September 19, 2005

Nothing can quite describe life in Iraq
by Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times, November 2008,
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraqdispatch10-2008nov10,0,1647805.story

Zeinab
Sadiq Jaafar and the Battle for Women in Iraq
available at the Huffington Post, February 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/madeleine-m-kunin/zeinab-sadiq-jaafar-and-t_b_163915.html

In the Twilight Zone
by Orville Schell reporting for Salon. 2006,
http://orvilleschell.com/in-the-twilight-zone/

An article on reporting in Baghdad by Wall Street Journal reporter
Farnaz Fassihi, 2004, available online at
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/archives/000955.html

At War, Notes from the front lines
by Erica Goode from the New York Times’ Baghdad Bureau, September 2008,
http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/author/erica-goode/

Covering Iraq:
The Modern Way of War Correspondence
by Michael Fumento for the National Review, November 2006,
http://www.fumento.com/military/brigade.html

Inside the Green Zone
by Brian Bennett/Baghdad for Time Magazine. 2007,
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1615188,00.html

Outside and
Inside Iraq’s Borders: A Forgotten Exodus
by Kenneth Bacon and Kristele Younes for the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/01/22/GR2008012202690.html

War Reporting in Iraq: Only Locals Need Apply
:
The Day of the Traditional Foreign Correspondent is Drawing to a Close
By Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, Weekend Edition, March 2007,
http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/03/03/war-reporting-in-iraq-only-locals-need-apply/

Map of the Green Zone as depicted by CNN at
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/images/cnn-green-zone-map.jpg

Weapons information provided by
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/armyweapons/l/aainfantry2.htm

Maps of the region
, and downtown Baghdad specifically, provided by National Geographic.com

I also used the internet extensively to read up on local foods, time zones, tools of Dylan’s trade, and to watch You Tube videos shot during the occupation of both patrols in Baghdad and within the Green Zone to get a sense of place.