In this devastating and brilliant new book John Simpson offers a compelling and cogent analysis of the West`s relationship with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, past and present. `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. ` That was Simon Hoggart reviewing Simpson`s devastating Panorama profile of Saddam Hussein, broadcast in early November 2002. This riveting, important and timely new book is the summation of more than twenty years covering Saddam Hussein`s Iraq. The War Against Saddam offers, in five acts, the full story of his rise to power and the West`s relationship with Saddam throughout his dictatorship. The fifth act will draw on Simpson`s first-hand experience of the 2003 war in Iraq, in what will be a major work of serious reportage and essential reading for us all.