Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World
10 best books like Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting from Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World (Martin Fletcher): Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, War Journal: My Five Years In Iraq, Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles, Hannibal (Military Library), The Kindness of Strangers: The Autobiography, The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq, Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril, Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918, Get Her Off the Pitch! How sport took over my life, The Making Of A Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
| Author | Tanya Shaffer |
| ISBN | 1400032598 |
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
War Journal: My Five Years In Iraq
| Author | Richard Engel |
| ISBN | 1416563040 |
An outstanding account of reporting in Iraq. It comes off as being honest, and critical, and forthright about events in the country. He does not seem to have written the typical breast-beating memoir, but a frank account. Some of the events he describes are horrific and heartrending (a father allowing...
Once Upon a Distant War: David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett--Young War Correspondents and Their Early Vietnam Battles
| Author | William Prochnau |
| ISBN | 0679772650 |
Once Upon a Distance War tells the stories of such young Vietnam war correspondents as Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett, and David Halberstam, providing a riveting chronicle of high adventure and brutal slapstick, gallantry and cynicism, as well as a vital addition to the history they shaped. "Prochnau...
| Author | Ernle Bradford |
| ISBN | 1840222263 |
Hannibal had long known his fate should the Romans ever lay hands upon him. He had taken an army right through Spain and into what is now France, crossed the Alps (at a time of year when no one believed it possible), and invaded Italy. Then, for 15 years, he used the country as his battlefield and his home,...
Kate Adie has courageously reported from all over the world since she joined the BBC in 1969. These memoirs encompass her reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, of course, the Gulf War of 1991. From the siege at the Iranian embassy which shot her to public...
| Author | Phillip Knightley |
| ISBN | 0801880300 |
"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times...
Our Last Best Chance: The Pursuit of Peace in a Time of Peril
| Author | Abdullah II of Jordan |
| ISBN | 0670021717 |
A newsbreaking memoir that tackles head-on the toughest challenge in the world today.
When a dying King Hussein shocked the world by picking his son rather than his brother, the longtime crown prince, to be the next king of Jordan, no one was more surprised than the young head of Special Operations,...
| Author | James Barr |
| ISBN | 0393060403 |
It was T. E. Lawrence’s classic Seven Pillars of Wisdom that made the Arab Revolt a legend and helped turn the British intelligence officer into the mythical “Lawrence of Arabia.” But the intrigue behind the revolt and its startling consequences for the present-day Middle East have remained...
Get Her Off the Pitch! How sport took over my life
| Author | Lynne Truss |
| ISBN | 0007305745 |
Get Het Off the Pitch! is the story of one woman's foray into the very masculine and rather baffling world of sport. Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, spent four years as an unlikely sports writer for The Times. It was a job that took her round the world (via the most difficult journeys and...
The Making Of A Quagmire: America and Vietnam During the Kennedy Era
| Author | David Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0394368606 |
Pulitzer-prize winning author David HalberstamOs eyewitness account of the most critical political period of U.S. involvement in Vietnam_the Kennedy/Diem era_remains as fresh and stimulating today as when it was first published in 1965. In the introduction to this edition, historian Daniel...
Unreasonable Behaviour: An Autobiography
| Author | Don McCullin |
| ISBN | 0099437767 |
'He has known all forms of fear, he's an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man - like myself, as a matter of fact - for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember, he says. But...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: A Photographer's Chronicle of the Iraq War
| Author | Ashley Gilbertson |
| ISBN | 0226293254 |
Arriving in Iraq on the eve of the U.S. invasion, unaffiliated with any newspaper and hoping to pick up assignments along the way, Ashley Gilbertson was one of the first photojournalists to cover the disintegration of America’s military triumph as looting and score settling convulsed Iraqi cities....
Photojournalism: The Professionals' Approach [With Dvdrom]
Photojournalism: A Professionals' Approach, 6th edition blends insightful interviews with professionals, practical experience, current equipment and camera technology, and high-impact photographs to create the definitive book on photojournalism. The DVD features footage of working professionals...
Swimming With Warlords: A Dozen-Year Journey Across the Afghan War
| Author | Kevin Sites |
| ISBN | 0062339419 |
The veteran journalist and author of In the Hot Zone and The Things They Cannot Say explores the impact of more than a decade of war on Afghanistan, from the American invasion after 9/11 to today, and offers insights into its future and the possible consequences for the U.S.
Kevin Sites made his...
Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq
| Author | Dahr Jamail |
| ISBN | 1931859477 |
“Dahr Jamail does us a great service, by taking us past the lies of our political leaders, past the cowardice of the mainstream press, into the streets, the homes, the lives of Iraqis living under US occupation. If what he has seen could be conveyed to all Americans, this ugly war in Iraq would quickly...
| Author | Robert Capa |
| ISBN | 0375753966 |
In 1942, a dashing young man who liked nothing so much as a heated game of poker, a good bottle of scotch, and the company of a pretty girl hopped a merchant ship to England. He was Robert Capa, the brilliant and daring photojournalist, and Collier's magazine had put him on assignment to photograph the war...
A World Of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East- from the Cold War to the War on Terror
| Author | Patrick Tyler |
| ISBN | 0374292892 |
The White House and the Middle East—from the Cold War to the War on Terror The Middle East is the beginning and the end of U.S. foreign policy: events there influence our alliances, make or break presidencies, govern the price of oil, and draw us into war. But it was not always so—and as...
Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East
| Author | Rashid Khalidi |
| ISBN | 0807003107 |
During the 45 years of the Cold War, policymakers from the United States and the Soviet Union vied for primacy in the Middle East. Their motives, long held by historians to have had an ideological thrust, were, in fact, to gain control over access to oil and claim geographic and strategic advantage. In...
| Author | Jon Steele |
| ISBN | 0552149845 |
Jon Steele is a war junkie. Soon after starting work as an ITN cameraman, he began to feel strangely at home in the kind of places ordinary people get evacuated from. Before long, he was living for the rush which comes as bullets fly past your head and bombs explode at your feet. Normal life just couldn't...
Warrior: An Autobiography
Israel's newest prime minister as of February 6, 2001, Ariel Sharon is a dynamic and controversial leader. A hero in Israel's wars, perhaps the most daring and successful commander in Israel's extraordinary military history, Sharon has always been a warrior, whether the enemies were hostile Arab...
Invisible Nation: How the Kurds' Quest for Statehood Is Shaping Iraq and the Middle East
| Author | Quil Lawrence |
| ISBN | 0802716113 |
The American invasion of Iraq has been a success - for the Kurds. Kurdistan is an invisible nation, and the Kurds the largest ethnic group on Earth without a homeland, comprising some 25 million moderate Sunni Muslims living in the area around the borders of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Through a history...
| Author | Bob Woodward |
| ISBN | 0743234758 |
For a book that goes into the details of the high-level military workings of the Bush Sr. presidency, it's a surprisingly quick read. Woodward presents the key players in the story as people with emotions and personalities. It's uneven on the personal insights, likely as a result of having uneven information,...
Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace
| Author | Avi Shlaim |
| ISBN | 1400043050 |
During his long reign (1953–1999), King Hussein of Jordan was one of the most dominant figures in Middle Eastern politics and a consistent proponent of peace with Israel. This is the first major account of his life, written with access to his official documents and with the cooperation (but...
The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War
Le mie brevi storie, scrive la Drakulic, metà racconto metà saggio, parlano delle metamorfosi che la guerra produce: metamorfosi dei valori, del modo di pensare, del proprio io profondo, fino al punto di non riconoscersi più". Nelle storie di Balkan Express non ci sono gesti eroici, vittorie e...
| Author | Moshe Dayan |
| ISBN | 0306804972 |
Moshe Dayan is the autobiography of a soldier who never forgot his roots as a farmer, a loner who rose to the highest echelons of government. Here he describes his kibbutz childhood, his involvement in the Jewish underground, the battles he fought as the head of a commando unit in the War of Independence,...
