For every great historical event, seemingly, at least one reporter writes an eyewitness account of such power and literary weight that it becomes joined with its subject in our minds-George Orwells Homage to Catalonia and the Spanish Civil War; John Herseys Hiroshima and the dropping of the first atomic bomb; Philip Gourevitchs We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Stories of Rwanda and the Rwandan genocide. Whatever else is written about the Iraqi people and the fall of Saddam, Jon Lee Andersons The Fall of Baghdad is worthy of mention in this company.