A book on the particular problems that journalists face in their effort to retrieve and transmit news in times of war, shocking images of contemporary conflicts, testimonies on the efforts to obscure the truth, on censorship, on suppression of facts, on news channeling, on pressure by the media, as well as by governments. This piece of work contains texts of 20 renowned journalists, who as war correspondents have covered wars and crises in Iraq, Chechenia, Zaïre, Palestine, Kosovo, Serbia, Afghanistan. 135 shocking images of renowned photographers from the battlefield. 19 caricatures of prominent sketch artists.