First as Ambassador to the UN, and then as Special Envoy for Iraq, the UK's highest authority on the ground, Sir Jeremy Greenstock was centre stage in the tumultuous days leading up to the Iraq war and witnessed first-hand its tremendous impact.

Initially prohibited from publication, this is a searingly honest account of Britain's war in Iraq. Greenstock was the UK's representative to the UN in the years leading up to the war and went to Baghdad, witnessing the impact first hand.