Patrick Cockburn
Patrick Cockburn is a Middle East correspondent for the Independent and has worked previously for the Financial Times. He has written three books on Iraq's recent history, including the National Book Circle Awards– shortlisted The Occupation and Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession (with Andrew Cockburn), as well as a memoir, The Broken Boy, and, with his son, a book on schizophrenia, Henry's Demons, which was shortlisted for a Costa Award. He won the Martha Gellhorn Prize in 2005, the James Cameron Prize in 2006, and the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2009. More recently he has been awarded Foreign Commentator of the Year at the 2013 Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards, Foreign Affairs Journalist of the Year in British Journalism Award 2014, and Foreign Reporter of the Year in Press Awards 2014.
Books
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The Age of Jihad: Islamic State and the Great War for the Middle East
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The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
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The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
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Saddam Hussein: An American Obsession
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Getting Russia Wrong: The End of Kremlinology
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Believe Nothing until It Is Officially Denied: Claud Cockburn and the Invention of Guerrilla Journalism