"[Ministry of Defeat] is not a descriptive, eyewitness chronicle of events, but an analysis of policy, military tactics and strategy, and their effect on combat troops ... The publication of this book anticipates the withdrawal being presented by politicians and the MoD as the natural consequence of a job well done." - Telegraph & Argus (Bradford). 30 May 2009.

"a devastating account of our occupation of southern Iraq. North shows that the MoD's one real triumph was the extent to which it managed to conceal how our six-year occupation, thanks largely to Tony Blair, became one of the most humiliating chapters in the history of the British Army." - Sunday Telegraph

Christopher Booker

Title mention in Tribune, August 2009

'Book of the year ... An admirable investigation of Britain's most rotten ministry, it helps explain the questionable performance of British troops and especially their equipment in Iraq, with tales of incompetence worthy of the trenches.' - Simon Jenkins, Times Literary Supplement

"Compulsively readable...Ministry of Defeat is a riveting and horrifying read. Richard North gives a detailed account of a part of the Iraq War that is virtually unknown in the U.S. This is the war the British press missed. ...This is a story of brave men and women betrayed by a government that did not care about them, and which was more concerned with its public image than winning the war it had sent those men and women to fight. -NYMAS Review, New York Military Affairs Symposium

Mention, telegragph.co.uk. 30 May 2009.