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This riveting account is the summation of more than twenty years covering Saddam Hussein’s Iraq: a major work of serious reportage and essential reading for us all. ‘By far the most comprehensive and readable account to date . . . Simpson remains a reporter who cares’ Sunday Times

‘Well-paced and well balanced . . . The Wars Against Saddam impresses not so much by its urgency as its detachment . . . the book exhibits, not bias, but a proper perspective’ Boyd Tonkin, Independent

‘You can’t really argue with much that John Simpson says – there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true’ Simon Hoggart, reviewing Simpson’s devastating ‘Panorama’ profile of Saddam Hussein, broadcast in early November 2002