Text engl. - Nachtwey’s photographs illustrate a TIME issue on poverty, especially an essay by Jeffrey D. Sachs. Nachtwey is mentioned in the editorial as recent recipient of the World Press Photo award, plus an illustration of the winning image as cover for a TIME story on Sudan.

Text engl. Incl. biographies (interior of dustjacket). - A war story suggesting a direct succession and consequence of events starting from the NYC terrorists attack of 9/11 to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. The story ist told in an ultimate aesthetic book design often using using double-spread briliant color images which are as cruel as they are perfect, presenting death as an unavoidable somewhat beautiful act.