Revolution Day: The human story of the battle for Iraq - Tapa dura

The first book, entitled Revolution Day will be Rageh Omaar's story of the recent Iraq war. During that conflict millions of people turned to Omaar for the quality of his reports from Baghdad. This will be the most important book to come out of the conflict. Omaar has reported from the region for several years and his proposal demonstrates his uniquely personal and insightful response both to the country and its people. It shows that he is not just a fine correspondent but also a terrific writer. Omaar's television and radio reports have secured his position among some of the finest correspondents of recent years and Revolution Day will be a vivid and resonant account of a conflict at the centre of modern politics that will be read by generations of readers for many years to come.

Rageh Omaar was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1967. He read modern history at Oxford and began his journalistic career at The Voice newspaper. In 1991 he moved to Ethiopia as a freelance journalist. For the next five years he worked as a broadcast journalist for the World Service and then became BBC TV News' Africa Correspondent, based in Johannesburg. Latterly he has reported for BBC TV from Afghanistan and Iraq. He moved back to the UK after the Iraq conflict.