Allies Main edition

Now in paperback: 'A well-informed and lucid account of events leading up to (and beyond) the war [in Iraq]... William Shawcross is one of a handful of European intellectuals who have bravely resisted the Gadarene rush to condemn Bush and Blair for liberating a country accurately described as "a prison above ground and a mass grave beneath it" ' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Times