I lost my love in Baghdad a modern war story by Michael Hastings

"Love and war always make for a potent brew, and in Michael Hastings's new book they infuse the horror in Iraq with an immediacy and a poignant sense of loss that are light-years away from the numbingly remote headlines we've been reading. This is what really happens when love, youth, and innocence descend into the abyss of death and devastation that is Iraq."-- Craig Unger, author of House of Bush, House of Saud and American Armageddon