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All of Which I Saw captures the United States Marine Corps during some of the most dramatic and important moments of the Iraq War. The book takes the viewer across the Pacific aboard ship, into the Battle of Najaf and Second Battle of Fallujah - where Read took his now-iconic photograph of a wounded Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal - and beyond into the bloody streets of Ramadi and the darkness of the Haditha massacre . . . only to return to the light of homecoming. During the Iraq War, no other photojournalist spent more time with the Marines, and this is a singular, stunning, and indispensable record of the conflict and the Marine Corps at war. Throughout, the book also contains Read's own contemporaneous accounts that tell the stories behind the photos and capture the grim truths about the war in all its violence, tragedy, heroism, and sacrifice.
About the Author
LUCIAN READ is an Emmy award-winning documentary director, cinematographer, and photojournalist. Between 2004 and 2010, he spent more than three years embedded with US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and witnessed many of the pivotal events of both wars. These embeds included a complete deployment with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit in Iraq and multiple long-term embeds with brigades from the 4th Infantry and 101st Airborne Divisions in Afghanistan. His photojournalism work during the wars for publications such as Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, and Rolling Stone garnered a World Press Photo Award in 2006. A collection of his work is in the permanent collection of the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia. In addition to the Iraq and Afghan Wars, Read has covered conflicts and current events across the globe. Read is a creator of the Norman Lear executive- produced documentary series America Divided. He was awarded Emmys in 2015 and 2017 for investigations of deaths on the US-Mexico border and child labor in Mexico. He directed the Occupy Wall Street feature documentary 99% -- an official 2013 Sundance selection. His work as a producer for the news magazine program Dan Rather Reports from the Afghan War was nominated for an Emmy in 2010. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
