Since the start of the recent hostilities I have been scanning the news in vein looking for something by Thomas Goltz, the author of several books I've read on the Caucasus. Goltz is a great, he's a mad man, what a foreign correspondent should be. He writes with a great historical depth. Apparently he was in Istanbul at the outbreak of hostilities and headed off to Georgia, he is reporting over at The Overseas Press Club. Enjoy:

Vintage Russia Makes Its Comeback, 12 August 2008
Georgia: A Five-Hour Lunch, 18 August 2008
Georgia's Western Ambitions, 18 August 2008
South Ossetia as Bait, 19 August 2008