Standard Operating Procedure is the story of the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs of prisoner abuse, as seen through the eyes and told through the voices of the soldiers who took them and appeared in them. It is the story of how those soldiers were at once the instruments and victims of a great injustice.

Drawing on more than two hundred hours of Errol Morris startlingly frank and intimate interviews with the soldier-photographers who gave us what have become iconic images of the Iraq War, Philip Gourevitch's book makes you see, makes you feel, and above all makes you think about what it means to be human.