. a new book by Michael Kamber foreword by Dexter Filkins The photojournalists who documented the war in Iraq faced a new kind of urban warfare. To the roadside bombs, snipers, and Katyusha rockets, Iraq added assassins, kidnappers and deadly street mobs; each photographer soon became as much target as observer. Tellingly, more photojournalists were killed in Iraq than in any other modern conflict; hundreds were abducted and wounded, or narrowly escaped death. Despite the great personal risks, some stayed and worked amidst increasingly brutal conditions as the war escalated from "shock and awe" invasion, to occupation, to insurgency, to civil war. With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by an incredibly diverse group of the world's top news photographers, Photojournalists on War (University of Texas Press, May 2013) presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America's nine-year conflict in the Middle East. Michael Kamber, a writer and photojournalist for over 25 years, who covered the Iraq War for the New York Times between 2003 and 2012, interviewed thirty-nine colleagues for the book, many of them from leading news organizations including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and the Washington Post. The Photographers in Photojournalists on War are: Lynsey Addario  .  Christoph Bangert  .  Patrick Baz  .  Nina Berman  .  Ben Brody  .  Andrea Bruce  .  Guy Calaf Patrick Chauvel  .  Alan Chin  .  Carolyn Cole  .  Jerome Delay  .  Marco Di Lauro  .  Ashley Gilbertson  .  Stanley Greeneo  .  Todd Heisler  .  Tyler Hicks  .  Eros Hoagland  .  Chris Hondros  .  Ed Kashi  .  Karim Ben Khelifa  .  Wathiq Khuzaie  .  Gary Knight  .  Yuri Kozyrev  .  Rita Leistner  .  Benjamin Lowy  .  Zoriah Miller  .  Khalid Mohammed  .  John Moore  .  Peter Nicholls  .  Farah Nosh  .  Gilles Peress  .  Scott Peterson  .  Lucian Read  .  Eugene Richards  .  Ahmad Al-Rubaye  .  João Silva  .  Stephanie Sinclair  .  Bruno Stevens  .  Peter van Agtmael Release Date: May 15, 2013 $65.00 hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-74408-0 10 x 12 inches, 288 pages 166 color and b&w photos 13 Nov 2006, Balad, Iraq - US military personnel help to load injured soldiers onto a cargo plane en route to Germany from the Balad Air Force base. The interior lights of the plane are red because of an "alarm red" attack, which indicates that the base is under attack, usually by incoming mortar rounds. Lynsey Addario/Corbis Tal Afar June 2005 Suspected insurgents are detained inside a Bradley Fighting Vehicle to be transported to a detention facility during an early morning raid. Soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi soldiers moved into Tal Afar with Bradleys, tanks, and Humvees. Helicopters provided air support as the soldiers searched houses and detained suspects. © Christoph Bangert Ubaydi December 29, 2007 Capt. George Morris, commander of B Company, 2-502 Infantry, and his soldiers hit the ground running in the opening salvo of Operation "Patriot Strike." The soldiers detained ten suspected al-Qaeda conspirators and seized weapons and bomb-making supplies. Ben Brody Ramadi February 2, 2006 US Army Chaplain Paul Halladay (CPT) leads soldiers from 1st Battalion, 506th, 101st Airborne Division in a Catholic mass at Observation Post Hotel. Guy Calaf Basra April 7, 2003 A British soldier watches black smoke rising from the southern port city of Basra. The burning building on the right, a technical college, was repeatedly shelled by British forces in response to Iraqi sniper attacks. Alan Chin Al Musayyib May 27, 2003 An Iraqi child jumps over the remains of victims found in a mass grave south of Baghdad. The bodies had been brought to this school for identification by family members who searched for identity cards and other clues among the skeletons to identify missing family members. The victims were killed by Saddam Hussein's government during a Shi'ite uprising here following the 1991 Gulf War. Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images Tikrit April 14, 2003 In Saddam Hussein's hometown, a US Marine slides down a marble handrail in one of the dictator's extravagant palaces. The residence contained carpets worth hundreds of thousands of dollars and at least one golden toilet. Tikrit was the last major city to fall to Allied forces during the invasion and, despite fighting that continued throughout Iraq, Marines celebrated victory. Ashley Gilbertson/VII Kirkuk April 2004, Roadside explosion. Stanley Greene/Noor MAY 2013 BACK ISSUE Back to current issue Karmah (Garma) October 31, 2006 Sgt. Jesse E. Leach drags Lance Cpl. Juan Valdex of Weapons Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, to safety moments after he was shot by a sniper during a patrol. Valdez was shot through the arm and right torso but surved. João Silva Diwaniya April 7, 2003 US Marines remove their dead and wounded after an artillery shell scored a direct hit on a US armored vehicle during an attack on Diwaniya Bridge.  Gary Knight/VII