War Stories - Jeremy Bowen Reviews
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Newest Review: ... on his first assignment in El Salvador, though front line danger dodging snipers' bullets in Sarajevo and bombs in Grosny, to ... more
... a more cautious and studied approach after the death of a colleague when an Israeli shell destroyed their car in the Lebanon.
The reportage is first-rate, as one might expect. Bowen is adept at grabbing the reader's attention from the outset with a close-up description of an individual incident, illustrating the impact of war on the people caught up in it, before panning back to sketch in the political or diplomatic context in which the events took place.
He is also clever in using novelistic - as opposed to j...more
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Jeremy Bowen War Stories Pages: 320, Edition: 1st, Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Ltd Last Update 18.05.2013 16:11
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War Stories - Jeremy Bowen: From the Front Line (1968 words)by - written on 09/02/07 (Very useful, 506 readings)
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"I have written this book because many people have asked me why journalists risk their lives to go to war." Thus Jeremy Bowen introduces this account of his many reporting assignments for BBC TV in the world's trouble spots over the last twenty years. During this period he was in Afghanistan (twice), El Salvador, Bosnia, Chechnya, Iraq (twice), Lebanon (twice), Israel/Palestine and Rwanda. There are conflict zones that have evaded Bowen's presence, but they are relatively few and relatively minor. During this period he has become, for British viewers at least, one of television news' most recognisable faces. He has also always struck me as one of ... Read the complete review
