War Stories - Couverture souple

Bowen, Jeremy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847370187 ISBN 13 : 9781847370181

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2006

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'A riveting and thought-provoking study of a uniquely dangerous job' Good Book Guide
'This is the story of a love affair that went wrong. It isn't over. It still has its moments and it might go on for many more years. But it will never be what it was when it started.'
Jeremy Bowen was in love with a job: addicted to reporting wars.
'It sounds a little sad, and in a way it was, though it was also compelling and passionate and fun and it never felt like work. I have written this book because many people have asked me why journalists risk their lives to go to war. The answer is complicated, and different people have their own reasons. But these were mine.'
Having joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984, Bowen quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the BBC's most recognisable faces, reporting from the front lines of Afghanistan, Chechnya and Baghdad during the First Gulf War as well as the Balkans and Jerusalem.
In 2000, however, everything changed. The violent death of a close colleague and the birth of his first child made Jeremy re-assess his hazardous occupation, and ultimately decide that he owed it to his growing family to do something less dangerous. But the fascination remained, and in this riveting memoir he attempts to come to terms with his infatuation. Candid and compelling, War Stories is also an extraordinarily gripping account of some of the late twentieth century's most divisive conflicts.
Praise for Six Days:
'Gripping . . . You emerge from the book feeling you have been as close an observer of a war as you are ever likely to be'
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
ISBN-10: 0-7434-4968-1

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Having joined the BBC as a trainee in 1984, Jeremy Bowen first became a foreign correspondent four years later. He had witnessed violence already, both at home and abroad, but it wasn't until he covered his first war -- in El Salvador -- that he felt he had arrived. Armed with the fearlessness of youth he lived for the job, was in love with it, aware of the dangers but assuming the bullets and bombs were meant for others.
In 2000, however, after eleven years in some of the world's most dangerous places, the bullets came too close for comfort, and a close friend was killed in Lebanon. This, and then the birth of his first child, began a process of reassessment that culminated in the end of the affair. Now, in his extraordinarily gripping and thought-provoking new book, he charts his progress from keen young novice whose first reaction to the sound of gunfire was to run towards it to the more circumspect veteran he is today. It will also discuss the changes that have taken place in the ways in which wars are reported over the course of his career, from the Gulf War to Bosnia, Afghanistan to Rwanda.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1847370187
• ISBN 13: 9781847370181
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320