This riveting account is the summation of more than twenty years covering Saddam Hussein's Iraq: a major work of serious reportage and essential reading for us all.

By far the most comprehensive and readable account to date . . . Simpson remains a reporter who cares Sunday Times

Well-paced and well balanced . . . The Wars Against Saddam impresses not so much by its urgency as its detachment . . . the book exhibits, not bias, but a proper perspective Boyd Tonkin, Independent

You can't really argue with much that John Simpson says - there is no foreign correspondent left on TV who has a fraction of his recognition and his credibility, a fact which may be unfair on the others, but happens to be true Simon Hoggart, reviewing Simpson's devastating Panorama profile of Saddam Hussein, broadcast in early November 2002